Despite his response, Grace finds it embarrassing to have said. Maybe it was evident, maybe it wasn't, but she needn't have admitted to it. Her life wasn't terrible, these last couple years. Anyway, she's survived them just fine. But she means it even so. His presence in her life has turned so much around, more than she could ever have anticipated or hoped for. "I know it isn't the same thing," she says, "not really. But it is to me."