What, no. 'Course I don't. If that's how you feel, that's how you feel; some stuff said by a guy you only met a couple months ago isn't gonna change all the shit you learned since you were little. Or, since you were, uh, younger? I guess I don't know how that works for you.

[He rubs at one palm with the opposite thumb for a moment.]

Would it help you to know someone from kinda similar circumstances?