"Cuz... Dangit, I dunno. They just do. And he's mine. That's the long 'n short of it." He really never put that much thought into it. It was normal where we was from.

"Jessie. Er, Palitutu. Awhile ago. And if yer follow-up question is about how she managed that, I uh, I never got 'round to askin'."