"You have no idea how alone I've been." She looks over at Katie, and Tara's smile is sort of... strained, and painful. "At home, I was- I didn't have anyone," she said finally. Quietly. "No one. And not just that thing where you think you're alone, but it's because you haven't asked, I was alone. So... So thank you. Thank you, more than I can say."

She's still holding Katie's hands, and she squeezes them a second time. She needs to show her, somehow, just how grateful she is. How much it means.

That's why when Katie says it helps her too, Tara nods - agreeing, obviously, because yeah. Yeah, she gets that as well. "It makes you stronger. I know it doesn't seem like that sometimes, but... make sure you remember it. I know- God, I know I have problems with that." She feels like she's failing on actually trying to communicate and instead there's this waterfall of words, but she forces herself to pull in a breath, then breathe out slowly as she finally lets herself let go of Katie's hands.

"God, I can't even believe this is happening."