[ Probably, she’s going to deny it. That’s how these things go, right— ]

No, I’m not okay. [ Oh. Or not. ] He was a nice, good person. And something— someone— Do you know just what happens when your body starts shutting down from the cold? He probably— couldn’t even understand what was happening, he probably kept thinking just a few more minutes and he’d be fine, that any minute someone would— would come and find him, and then he forgot, all over again, and had to go through that, over and over and over!!

[ She’s crying. That’s all it took. ]