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"Sorry to hear about...your uhm...dad pers-GIles." He takes a deep breath then lets it out so that what he says next comes out in that rush of breath. "My uncle was murdered. Uhm...a few months ago. Months for me. Not--anyway. I guess--I don't know why I'm telling you that."
Maybe so that she'll guess that his boring wasn't as boring as he'd like to make it sound or maybe it was because she'd get it, the whole losing a dad thing.
"He was like--my parents died when I was five. Uncle Ben and Aunt Mae raised me."