Well, if that isn't painfully familiar. Sometimes Greta feels absurdly lucky, just for having good, kind parents who didn't die well before their time. Nearly everyone else she can't think of hasn't been so fortunate. Either their parents were lost, or they were terrible -- or both, in some cases.

"Did they raise you well?" she asks, because that, she thinks, matters more than who was doing the raising. "I mean--you've obviously turned out well enough," she adds with a dismissive flap of her hand.