QUOTE : Take that and go play. I don’t care if it takes a year. Get the boy out of your system and then get back here. We’ve got work to do.” <br />At the time, I thought Saul meant I needed to take some time to grow up. Get the boy out of my system and come back a man. <br />But thinking back on that conversation a few years later, I’m pretty sure Saul believed there was something going on between me and Kier. I seriously doubt Saul ever had a relationship with anyone unless it would bring him sex or power. I’m not sure he understood anything else. <br />But it wasn’t ever like that with Kiernan, no matter what Saul thought. <br />I had all kinds of half-siblings, full-siblings, too, maybe, but I never thought of them as family. None of them ever stood up for me in the play yard, although I guess many of them were actually younger than me, so maybe that wasn't a fair expectation. None of them played “kick the cones” with me, none of them taught me about baseball. That’s the kind of thing brothers do. <br />There was a whole big world out there to explore, and it would be a lot more fun exploring it together.