"You make it sound like you guys make it hard for yourselves. I mean, yeah, I know, extraordinary circumstances and personal biases and all--" among other things, "--but you guys, like... you guys are good, you know? You're both good, strong people, with a lot of reasons to be proud of yourselves. You match well."

He takes a moment to stuff some more food down just to ease his nerves. He knew being a parent was stressful, but Christ.

"It would've been nice to meet him. I'd like to meet the man who raised the person my kid chose to marry.But mostly I'm glad you got to see him again, and you got to meet hiim... that was the Visitor's Center from a while back, right?"