Sort of. We said goodbye to them the first time because we really thought we'd never get to see them again. But this last time...it was kind of weird. When we first met, they knew about us and we didn't know anything about them. After the reboot it was the other way around. Yamato says they got their memories back, but I didn't even know before we showed up here.

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I guess what I'm getting at is I'm not going to give up on trying just because it'll get harder and harder to bring you back.