She put a hand on his shoulder briefly, but didn't comment. Sometimes you just had to let someone be with their emotions, and not make of them.

"Nope, never did. I aged out of the system and they put me up in a cheap little women's home the church ran." She shrugged it off. "I put everything into my schoolwork, got a scholarship to UVA, and once I was there, I lived in the dorms. First place that was ever really mine."