Well, I already was. That character was one fo the reasons I stopped reading the series; I can be paternalized at in real life, I don't need it in my fiction.
But I suppose that brings up an interesting writerly point: How might one treat the main character of a first-person tale as a child, without also treating the reader as a child?
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