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Well, that's how I saw it when I read it the first time, too. It's only when I went back to reread them that my squick sensor started going off, and not long after that I read that in the original version, AM had intended to write the two of them into a relationship, until wiser heads prevailed and she changed it. But the sort of... emotional lead-up to that was still there. And looking at the relationship over the Pern series as a whole, she's pretty much always a little uncomfortably close, emotionally. And it never read like she loved him as a surrogate father or a mentor- to me, anyway.