_{[She's quiet for a moment, expression unreadable. She's deciding just how to break the news.]}

... Yeah.

Just now, I said 'that life'. Like I was referring to some other life than the one I'm living now.

I wasn't being symbolic.

_{[Here she leans back in her chair, looking him dead in the eye. Not blinking. She's not going to hang her head or stare into space when she says this.]}

Eighteen years before I came here, I died.