[...whelp. Stephen's time to open up. He lets out a breath, and looks back to the laundry machines. It doesn't get easier with each telling, but...]

...I have a wife. Elizabeth. She's- amazing, and we had a daughter, Maddie. [His throat tightens just a bit, because no - if anything, it's harder.] Maddie, she was born with...she didn't make it out of the hospital, and Elizabeth...I mean, nobody can take that kind of thing well? But I guess she thought I should have taken it worse than I did, even though I'd kind of...accepted...that Maddie wasn't going to make it.

[He lets out a puff of air]

...Elizabeth found someone else, and called me when she did. Just told me it was over. That's when I really...started to spiral.