Her confused frown is answered with the same from him. "Why would you? That'd be one hell of a good guess from two sentences." Unless she's a mind-reader, but if she was, he wouldn't have had to say anything.

Well, he certainly can't fault her for not knowing the story that everyone else on his Earth knows, given both where they are and the era of her attire. "My dad died the same day I was born, and I look a lot like him." Jim shrugs, as if that explains it. For the most part, it does, as far as he knows. "I got sick of it and left when I was a teenager."