Brian has defaulted into that category since he died and no longer has the opportunity to fuck up my feelings for him, not that I think he could regardless.
And it looks like I'm equating unconditional with perpetual, sue me.
Dewey is still living, I can't imagine my feelings for him changing, they've strengthened over the years (LOL, decades) since I've last seen him. I 'grok' him better the older I get and have experiences that illuminate to me what he had already been thru when we met and how he became the person I met and fell for. And then finding out about the heyoka thing, that clinched the deal. Heyokas have slipped into US culture a few times; Younger Bear in Little Big Man was probably the first, and while not explicitly referenced as such in the movie, John Dunbar in Dances With Wolves was clearly drawn as a heyoka.
And it looks like I'm equating unconditional with perpetual, sue me.
Dewey is still living, I can't imagine my feelings for him changing, they've strengthened over the years (LOL, decades) since I've last seen him. I 'grok' him better the older I get and have experiences that illuminate to me what he had already been thru when we met and how he became the person I met and fell for. And then finding out about the heyoka thing, that clinched the deal. Heyokas have slipped into US culture a few times; Younger Bear in Little Big Man was probably the first, and while not explicitly referenced as such in the movie, John Dunbar in Dances With Wolves was clearly drawn as a heyoka.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
