[Yes, but they're past that now. They can't feasibly cease all professional and interpersonal relations with anyone who happens to hurt them, on accident or otherwise. From a working standpoint, it's simply not practical.]
[They have learned that if they press the point, it will only worsen matters. So instead, they simply file that debt away as something to be repaid at a later time, privately, and lever themself to their feet with a slow, painful stagger and an arm wrapped around their middle.]
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[They have learned that if they press the point, it will only worsen matters. So instead, they simply file that debt away as something to be repaid at a later time, privately, and lever themself to their feet with a slow, painful stagger and an arm wrapped around their middle.]
[And they straighten, and stand.]
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