There are a lot of terrible things about it, but I think the worst thing is - [She looks up at him tentatively, and her words are unplanned, just a genuine outpouring of emotion.] - they make you happy and then they take it away. It's a lie, but it's a good one, and you almost want to keep on believing it even after they're done. But none of it's true, and none if it's real, and when it's over, you're just--

[empty. hurting. dirty and violated and broken and-]

--stuck.

[Alone, had been what she meant to say.]