[ . . . Where did that come from? (and of course his therapist his right, his therapist is brilliant and extremely helpful and deeply frustrating sometimes and better be good for how much he pays to go as regularly as he does. But he looks down at her, surprised and thinking a million thoughts at once for how to respond to that, for what she could be implying, and he finally says, ]

I definitely used to. I've been worrying about it in the last few years, but Masa and Ada and Nariko and the other older people - they're all my best friends. [ Nariko might not think to call him that ever, Ada probably wouldn't, and Masaomi might but Sullivan can't help but think that he was just being nice. So in the end, it might be one-sided, but he was sincere. ] Do you?

[ She gave up her family to be here, depending on how you looked at it, so he sure as hell hopes so ]