[It's kind of obvious now that he says it. He thinks back. If he hadn't been the time player, if in that version of the world Rose hadn't been either, that would have been it. Both of them consigned to wait until paradox space took the toll inevitable for the doomed and killed them. For a second after, the idea of if he had ever given up. He thinks of three long years spent on the ship, of John's can I talk to the real Dave?, and says,]
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Yeah. If I had to do it again, I still would.