Anyone else and she would have just nodded slightly in acknowledgement. "Twenty years takes the sting off a bit." 'A bit'. That was accurate. She could forget about it for long stretches of time before something reminded her and she was hit with a sense of emptiness, a hole that couldn't be filled... No doubt there were people out there who'd take one look at her life and nod knowledgeably as they diagnosed her with that all-too-common affliction, 'daddy issues'. Well, at least she could wear her stereotypes in style.
She laughed a little fondly at Matt's comparison, no doubt that it was true. "They are a bit messy. Boys and their toys." And too many of them probably not too used to cleaning up after themselves. "That probably depends how easily scandalised you are."