... you need not apologize. I only speak as I do to you because... I know what it is to lose yourself.

[ But perhaps she had not made her position so clear before... and it's never really easy, to say. ]

To... fall so far and for so long into a different person that I could not even realize that there was someone that came before, or to recognize any good in the after, unaided. Many of these difficulties of which you have spoken are... quite familiar to me. All of that to say is... that the task of making sense of what the present is... you have that time now for it, however long it may be.