Or just finds meaning? A place to call home? [she pauses to take a sip.]

I mean, if home is what truly satisfies the heart in the end, then...yes. But I think, reading on, learning about the kind of person entangled in the tale...it's exciting to discover what drives them, what they seek and, ultimately...that may be different than what both you and that character craved at the start.

You don't get that working in a stupid hobby shop day-to-day, you know? It's...it's so special and unique and intimate to you and this imaginary person. Nothing compares.

[she exhales heavily, red-faced.]

I hate this. I sound like I have no life, when I definitely have one. It's just. Not...ideal.