"Thank you, Jim. I appreciate it." Okay, they've definitely had this conversation before. She steals a glance at him while she takes a sip of her coffee, but is distracted by his answer before she can dwell on it for long.

"That's a shame. I mean, I-- I don't know what your family is like. But to be so scattered..." She looks at him again from over the rim of her cup. "Were you not close growing up, either?"