[...Okay, NOW she was actually intrigued. Listening. Good material for a written piece. IF she wrote something else for him anyway. If not her, then didn't he just explain what he could write about?

Maybe there was a way to convey that in a way HE would understand?

Because well, again, things started to make some more sense. She didn't have to directly answer the question.]

If you lived under someone else's shadow, there logically should be a point in which anyone should want to break off. It's called "independence". Seemed like you each found a niche eventually.

So what was yours?