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sherlock does that thing, that thing i know so well because i live it, that fishing for reassurance that people still care about you, the ‘well you’re hardly gonna need me around now you’ve got a real baby on the way’ because someone was supposed to go, ‘don’t be silly, of COURSE we still need you, and want you, because we like having you around, we love you’ but no one says that … no one fucking does