"I get that," Kathy said, because she did. She was queen of taking responsibility for other people's actions. It was tempting to remind him of their blame conversation earlier, but that felt too much like lecturing. "It's hard not to see all the places where you could have done something else, something better, when you look back on stuff."

Welcome to her constant brain-crawl, Dante.

"But I disagree. Just so you know."