[ The offer will stand; ultimately, she knows it's not hers to take - or make. ]

Well, at least two of those things are true. [she'd tried, where so many of the other things are concerned.] ..And I don't know that she needs to know, about what he did. Being here, being alive, is going to be hard enough.

[it hadn't been her mother's fault that her father had never really gotten over her]