K suggested that Emily think about her life with Pepper as a point in the center of a spiral. As the spiral grows, you end up looking at the center from farther and farther away; with each successive turn you’re another layer removed. That thing in the middle of the spiral will never disappear completely, but each additional layer will act as a kind of insulation, and it will eventually become much harder to see and feel the thing that you put in the middle of the spiral the way you did in the beginning.
