"So Italy was sort of... a big deal, then," Kate guessed, not wanting to put words in Effy's mouth. That was how it sounded, though, like the first time her mom had actually tried and that was the kind of thing that was important.

She knew that things at home had been hard sometimes, that there had been times when they were younger that Tara had worried about the two of them being taken away because of her DID, but Kate thought they were probably pretty lucky. It was just too bad that she was figuring that out now, here, where she couldn't actually tell her parents or change how she treated them.