"You are," he says, the words out when he might normally have held them back. The point of hearing this isn't to reassure her, exactly. It's to let her tell this story and all its very clear, very sharply precise pain, so that they don't have to linger on this topic any longer than necessary. He won't make her tear this wound open any wider than it already is.

But.

But he knows that a month or so later, Abraham was with Sasha. So he has a sense for how this story ends.