"No, that's not what I'm saying at all. Why would I ever say anything like that?" If that's how he sounded, then he's flat-out mortified, because that's not what he meant at all. He'd never tell anyone they needed to change who they were, and neither would he hold himself up as a paragon of anything. Well, alright, he might be quick to call himself a genius and brilliant and a dozen other synonyms all meaning the same thing, but he'd never do what Abigail's suggesting.

"You should be yourself, that's what you ought to do. There's only one you, after all. The world doesn't need two of me." Or two of anyone, for that matter. What it does need is individuals with different likes, dislikes, and personalities, and that is why he'd never say she should try to be like him.