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I wish I would have been there for you._ He finally found his voice. __ wish I would have been there to beat up all the children who bullied you, to shoot your father dead the first time he broke one of your bones. I wish I would have been there to sweep you out of town and save you from the horrors you went through.__er eyes widened in surprise and then immediately narrowed as she shook her head. __ didn__ need to have a hero in my life, Mark. I needed to figure out how to be my own hero. I took the easy way out. I allowed small-town people to label me and then I did my very best to live up to the label they__ provided. It__ taken me thirty-seven years to realize I don__ need a hero. I__ all I need and I__ strong enough to build the rest of my life alone.