"He's told me his side, or most of it. Everybody's got a different story, though."

She sighs and leans back in her chair. "Well, to start with, I was born when my youngest sibling was seventeen years old. My brothers were both off at college, and Miranda was going to be in college in a year, and all the sudden there I am, totally screwing up my parents' plans for what they were going to do after Miranda left. They didn't want me, and made it abundantly clear to me from the start." It's said very matter-of-factly, with much less bitterness than there would have been had he spoken to her even two months ago.

It's still there, though. That's never going to go away entirely. "One of my first memories, I think I was four or five, and my mom told me that I was a mistake and never should have been born."