Yo I'm crying. To be all alone with no one to be by your side but your self, that's torture. I hope she and the kids will get along in the future as well.
Pulling off a segment of a story in-abstract like this is seriously impressive. It's like we suddenly switched to Le Petit Prince storytelling for one chapter, and doing that without feeling childish or whimsical or losing any of the power of the story... I'm slightly in awe.