“You just … you sound, and look, like you again.” “Don’t be so dramatic.” I laugh back. “No, Tait, really. I just have been so worried that the opposite would happen, you know? That all this would make you want to shut down and shut out more. But you’re out here living life like a Tim McGraw song!” I roll my eyes. “Stop.” “I mean, it literally sounded like that. You were all ‘I went four-wheeling, I went Rocky Mountain hiking, I went—2.7 seconds—in a pond with Cowboy Thor,’” she sing-songs, badly. “I’m truly impressed that you made that up actually. I can’t even be mad.”

