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Bonds of childhood
It's been a couple of days since I posted on this, and today it's occurred to me to wonder if LW is confusing her comfort factor in having known him as at least semi-innocent kids with her need to hope he's grown into a decent man?
She admits to distrust-y feelings about him, but can't seem to trust those feelings. Likely this is mostly about her previous abuse and subsequent inability to see the forest for the trees, but it's also probably heavily informed by nostalgia. Childhood bond is powerful stuff.
I wonder if this were some man who she'd just met in adulthood, would her judgment be much more grounded.