[That is quite a bit of an admission, and France can tell. He doesn't know all the details, just what Cooper is telling him, but he can feel a lot of it from Cooper's demeanor, from what France can guess from the information given and what he knows of human nature.]
[Love can make people--even the most logical and moral people--crazy. It is a fact that France knows well. Too well, in a lot of ways, and much better than many others, human or Nation. Love is France's greatest asset and his most coveted poison. As much as he'd like to pretend he's always been in control of it, France has never been able to control his love, not entirely. To be controlled by one's emotions, to have them manipulated: it's the cruelest thing that France has experienced and is able to do.]
God...
[France passes a hand over his lower face, rubbing the palm of his hand over the stubble lining his jawline.]
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[Love can make people--even the most logical and moral people--crazy. It is a fact that France knows well. Too well, in a lot of ways, and much better than many others, human or Nation. Love is France's greatest asset and his most coveted poison. As much as he'd like to pretend he's always been in control of it, France has never been able to control his love, not entirely. To be controlled by one's emotions, to have them manipulated: it's the cruelest thing that France has experienced and is able to do.]
God...
[France passes a hand over his lower face, rubbing the palm of his hand over the stubble lining his jawline.]
Did he come to you somehow during the lost days?