"I won't sugar-coat it. She's pretty pissed at you -- though I pretty much assume you already know that. It's hard to love a changeable man."

A beat. She breathed out, shaking her head. "We can live here so long and the hard facts still throw us. Deaths and losses and cures and...and we can't just say another me did that because it's not really true, is it? It was still you. Just...missing the key part."