[ She hadn't wanted to, not at first. She wanted to get far, far away from the man she couldn't recognize. But then she'd been asked to see him, and she had. She really had, even if he wasn't the same.

Taking a deep breath, she lets it out as she nods. ]

Yeah. Yeah, I stayed, how could I not? And it's...a little better. Not a lot. Everything he was is the opposite, and I don't know—I just want him to smile at me again.

[ Her voice cracks and her vision blurs again ]