You were right, about being...in a holding pattern, wasn't it? I think that was true for me, too. I could not let go of feeling as though I was not doing enough, or was making too many mistakes. Even though I knew I wasn't like this. Before.

[She oughtn't need to specify the event that drew a line to create before and after. Not to him.]

So now I...well, I'm here in part because I did say I wanted to talk and to tell you otherwise all of a sudden would not have gotten me off the hook, would it? [She smiles, a tired one but not the shadowed one of the past while.] And to thank you, for reminding me about drive and talent and conviction.