The reminder is a potent one, badly needed. Katie knows things are better now, that she's happier than she's been in a long, long time. When she looks back, though, it's with regret, trepidation, guilt, shame. It's hard to see what she lived through and not think she was at least partially responsible for the way David treated her. It's hard to think about how he hurt her and know she still loves him a little, that she always will, that it was love that kept her with him all those years. She never really thinks of her life here as one of strength, of what she did as surviving. She just knows she wasn't going to let him own her anymore. With what Tara says, though, she feels it for a moment, and it's like falling, weightless and stunned, but knowing the landing will be soft.

"I wish it weren't," she says. "I'm so sorry this is happening. I — so what actually happened? You said he got in trouble again, like back home. Was this — did someone attack him?"