Do you like here or California better? Or is there no real comparison, since they're so different? For Jono, somewhere as far away as California would be an entirely different country. Actually, most places that counted as states in America would be different countries in Europe. It was a strange idea to him, to think that there could be such a big place and all of it be unified.
His eyes softened as she spoke about what happened, and he put gentleness into the tone of his head voice. I'm so sorry that it happened to you. It sounds like it was a horribly unfortunate encounter. It may be a stupid question, so forgive me, but is there anything that can be done? To reverse it, I mean.
Jono imagined that her problem could be ended in at least one way that was definite, but he doubted that she or others wanted to put an end to her so completely.