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[She just offers a wry smile and a shrug for his first comment. Hospitals are complicated things for her, and she hasn't even been to one for fourteen months.]

She'll chew you up and spit you out if you don't treat her right.

[Steph is weird about Gotham.]

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New York was a little like that, growing up. I can't imagine it being worse.

[But hard cities grow hard people who can survive anything. Brooklyn made him what it was, and he wouldn't trade that for anything.]

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The rest of the country gave up on her, cut us off and left us to die, but she looked after us.

[Even broken and crumbling, even when half her people were dead or gone, Gotham still looked after the people who stayed.]

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The earthquake.

[Cass had mentioned it a little, enough for him to get a picture of what it might have been like.]

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That's the one. It's how Cass came to us.