"But it was familiar to you," Kate said, trying to imagine what it would have been like for her when Marshall went off to college. He would have, there was no doubting that, but she knew she wasn't exactly college material and he deserved to get out of Overland Park, even if he didn't actually leave Kansas. Kate had always figured he would, though, go off to New York and make movies and never come home.

And he deserved to be able to do that. Even if she would have been totally lonely without him there. There was a lot of stuff Kate would do, but try to convince Marshall to stay home for her sake wasn't one of them.

"I would have had to keep a sweater vest if Marshall took off," she said, then laughed. "Or a tie." She loved her brother, loved him dearly, but that didn't mean she wasn't going to take the chance to tease him. Even if he wasn't there to hear it. "Or his monogramed pyjamas."