"Yeah, well." She didn't believe that then. Not for years, and she's discovered that she still doesn't, not really.

She doesn't have to say it though. He loved me. He wanted to have a family with me. She knows how it goes, how it sounds.

"I think it's bullshit, how easy it is to believe that they made us strong. They didn't. We were already strong, Brandon." It's easier to put strength behind it when it's we, not just I.