"I guess that would be Mary but she's not exactly the same thing." It wasn't something he cared about and she hardly blamed him for that. Every so often she just couldn't help tying up a loose verbal end as if it might come back to bite her heels. "I don't think I was settled in the town I was born in, or the house that I lived in either. If it's ever going to happen then a certain woman has to stop being a goddamn idiot."

But her much more knowledgeable friend could only serve as a partial anchor, at the end of the day she just wasn't used to all of this. "If it happens I probably won't know until it hits me in the face." And maybe not even then.