Great part! I thought this same thing as Mozartmaid regarding this part, sounds so very familiar:
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm desperately hoping that you will fall in love with *me*. Not the guard. Not the woman who gave you reasonable living conditions. Not the woman who took the poison from your shoulder. Not the woman who helped you escape. Just me. Lois." -------------------------------------------------
Mozartmaid: It's funny... these lines (slightly altered, of course) could just as easily be canon Clark needing Lois to love him for himself and not Superman. Wonderful moments and of course Clark is being a lunkhead, but Lois will get him past it with time, but I imagine it is going to take a lot of time for him to improve his self-image and of course he is all about self-sacrifice so it is a challenge for him anyway to think of himself too as Lois is trying to get him to do. Some of this:
