Have you ever needed a vacation from a vacation?

Have you ever even taken a vacation to need a...

It's odd that I'm doing this, isn't it? When I really know so little about you.

I know some things, of course. I didn't embark on this without doing any research at all.

I know about your job. I know about a few of your friends.

I know really a little bit about how you spend your day-to-day life.

But holidays aren't part of your day-to-day life, really. They're an occasional thing.

A break from the routine. So I don't know how many you've taken.

I don't know where you've been or how long for.

Maybe I shouldn't know all of this. Maybe I shouldn't know anything about you.

There's a limit to how much anyone can know about another person, of course.

And then there's an appropriate amount to know of someone based on your relationship to them.

Maybe I know too much about you. But it feels like I don't know nearly enough.

In another world, in another version of the world, you would be my daughter.

Not genetically, of course. But why should genes be so important?

I have never approached you in public. I would never approach you in public. I would never put you in danger.

I just want to know you. The person you became after you were born.

I know who you were before you were born.

Oh, this is weird. I'm being weird. Shouldn't have brought it up.

I'm not too old to feel shame, but I am too old to care enough to start this tape over.

So we'll both just have to live with it. Let's start over.

Where was I? Oh, yes. Okay. Have you ever needed a vacation from a vacation?

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