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[synanthrope]

We are all creatures of habit.

We are even more creatures of pattern. If you deny that, you're lying, even if you don't think you are. Habit is biological. It is an ingrained evolutionary survival skill. It was very carefully bred into us. Habit says we do things every day that keep us alive.

Of course, humans turn that into something more. Humans make habit holy, sacred, religious. I don't particularly ascribe to religion. It doesn't suit me. My shoes are more sacred.

So when you say things like you're comfortable here or you like it here better than home, even with the curses, what you're saying is that your habits have grown familiar here, and you have a routine.

But memory is fickle.

Now, now.

Don't lie.

I know you all think that, at one point or another.

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[yourbestguysgun]

Sometimes home doesn't hold anything anymore. Is that habit?

[unflagging]

What if we don't like it here better than home?

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[synanthrope]

No. That's still survival, though.

[synanthrope]

Do you like home?

[unflagging]

Hey, it's home, isn't it? And, like they say, there's no place like home, there's no place like home.

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[yourbestguysgun]

I'll admit I ain't ever been big on psychology.

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[synanthrope]

Should I forgive you?

Hello, Bucky.

[synanthrope]

Dorothy said that.

[unflagging]

So she did.

[synanthrope]

You ought to be specific.

[unflagging]

Maybe I didn't mean her saying of it specifically. I know others have said it since. Come on.

[synanthrope]

Yes, but they've all quoted her.

[unflagging]

No, they all quoted L. Frank Baum, who put such words in her mouth in the first place.

Have you got an accuracy fetish or something?

[synanthrope]

No, L. Frank Baum never wrote that. That was just for the movie.

Not a fetish. Just a preference.

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[yourbestguysgun]

Dunno. Is not liking it a crime nowadays? I gotta know if I'm gonna uphold the law.

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[synanthrope]

You're the police officer. You should decide.

[unflagging]

Okay, then, whoever wrote the script. That name escapes me.

At least we're being accurate on that count.

[synanthrope]

You get it.

[unflagging]

I get it.

[onset]

Oh, trust me, I don't think I'll ever get used to - anything.

Here.

[synanthrope]

You say that, but you will.

[onset]

Hopefully I won't stay here long enough for that.

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[brothertragedy]

Working and keeping to a schedule is what I know. It breeds familiarity, yes, but not love.

I remain loyal to my home. This is merely one, irritatingly long, unplanned stop along the journey; certainly not my final destination. Onwards!

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[pinokosthewife]

... you like to talk, don't you, Mish?

Pinoko couldn't like thish plache more than home, even if it's a niche plache! Sure, the old houshe in Japan is cweaky and drafty and never getsh clean no matter how much Pinoko shcrubs and shweepsh, but that's where her darling lives!

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[synanthrope]

You will change your mind.

Ask the people who have been here for longer than two or three years.