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I got sad bc of this, so everyone else should join me

I think curtwen is so interesting because just for this short moment in time, even if just for a second, these men so closed off, with their emotions locked away by not only their job but society are able to let their walls fall because the other one gets it. For a moment they’re their own people, not properties of their governments, but their own human beings who feel comforted by the fact another person has gone through their experiences, a friend to lean on. And yet, Curt still leaves. He can’t bring himself to go back. And then there’s this question of why, why couldn’t he? He has the same question, so did Owen. Why didn’t Curt go back? The question lingers for 4 years, both of them trying to figure out the answer and finding two completely different reasonings. But it doesn’t matter now. Curt left, and there’s no going back. That sturdy feeling is gone, they have nothing to lean on, so they fall into this dark spirals they’re never really able to dig themselves out of