[ ...Ouch. But she wants to try and explain it, if she can. ]

When I was with you in Boston it was where I wanted to be, Brianna. Jamie and I both wanted the best life for you. I missed him, every day for twenty years but that doesn't mean I wasn't where I needed to be. What I have now, how I live, it's not to make up for lost time, Brianna. It's to live in the place my soul already is.

[ Reaching out, she strokes her daughter's hair softly. ]

But you were my heart, and it was with you, every day. Even if I never quite made it to mother of the year.

[ She says that with a soft, regretful smile. ]