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Roy's father had been a respected general. He hadn't been around much – it was his mother who had done most of the child-rearing in the family, but that wasn't unusual. Regardless, he couldn't imagine a household where he didn't have a paternal figure to go to, where there was no strong masculine backbone to support things. He had looked to his father for things his mother couldn't give him, and that presence, no matter how minute it was, had been important.
Edward had never had that, and Roy wondered if maybe he hadn't either, he might have been as strong.