"Did you really?" Kate asked, clearly amused and interested to hear about this. "Anything particular?"
Knowing what she did of history, Kate figured it would be about 15 years beyond Peggy's time when the idea of some of the stuff presented in novels could seem possible. The space race, Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, none of that had happened yet - and while Kate had missed that, she did remember the Challenger explosion and how all the adults in her world had been horrified. Of course, being a child, she hadn't understood what it all meant until later.
"They really shouldn't have expected you to take it all on by yourself in the first place," she said, "That's a tough task for anyone."