[Basil...cannot work up an answer to that as quickly as he'd like. Because yes, he DOES miss home, desperately. He misses his grandmother, and Polly, and his garden...but there's a lot about home he doesn't want to go back to. The struggles of living there, the tension in the town...the treatement he suffers, it's all stuff he'd much rather bury and not think about.
But that isn't something he's going to unpack in front of a stranger. Fibbing is easier, at least when the broad strokes of his answer would more or less stay the same.]
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But that isn't something he's going to unpack in front of a stranger. Fibbing is easier, at least when the broad strokes of his answer would more or less stay the same.]
I do. It can be...really hard, living here.