“Your mommy will be loading every day you have with education and physical activities for a long while, and I want you to endeavor as much as you can with them. It won’t be quite as busy as it was this week, in which I’ve been here trying everything on you, just to get ideas on how you two should proceed. However, if anytime you get warn out by anything, very important, please tell mommy and she phand of hers is big enough to gently clutch two of a 4-month-old’s even when the infants hands are reflexively balled up. Both Hendersons looked up to Maribel with intent focus.

“… which leads me to one more thing I want to say and I beg you both to listen. I want you to be a success story as bad as you do, and so does your mommy. You know that it is hard to be successful and not everyone is successful, so there is one thing I need to tell you both.

“When I say your mommy is the most important person, here on Earth, for your lives, I mean it. I’ve seen something that concerns me. You both seem to want to spend much more time bonding with each other than your mommy. It is as important for you to bond with your mommy now, as it was in your first childhood, if not more important. You need to let go-, I shouldn’t say let go because you aren’t letting each other go, you just need to stop the deep bonding time with each other for a while. That will happen again some day. Don’t worry. Just not today. You will not fall away from each other, either, because even though we do not have an adult regenerate yet, we know with almost certainty that regenerates who make it most often lean towards having two childhoods and one adulthood, and the adults you will become again will be very much like the one you were before. You didn’t lose your personality when we regenerated you, otherwise we would not have considered it moral to regenerate.

“You are, without a doubt in my mind, still bonded with each other, without the need to spend time with each other more often than your mommy. You are still legally married now. You can talk to each other like husband and wife. You always will be in love with each other, and when the time comes, you will be all husband-and-wife again, but you cannot let your relationship with each other interfere with your second childhood.”