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You are confusing plumbing and love again.
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.
I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.
Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.