[Gene shrugs easily, still smiling.] It's been a weird morning.
[Which is kind of an understatement, but he doesn't want to talk about it in detail. Not with Jimmy, not with anyone, really, because it's stupid and he's tired of feeling messed up. It was just a nightmare. No reason to feel so shaken up about it.
So it's easier to just leave it at that and go back to eating. You can't dwell on it.]
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[Which is kind of an understatement, but he doesn't want to talk about it in detail. Not with Jimmy, not with anyone, really, because it's stupid and he's tired of feeling messed up. It was just a nightmare. No reason to feel so shaken up about it.
So it's easier to just leave it at that and go back to eating. You can't dwell on it.]