"No, it certainly was beautiful." Kate agreed, though her mind was picturing both the sites she had seen during her study abroad trip meshed up against the photos that had been displayed on television so many years later of war and ruin. "If we go back to Earth, maybe I can take a trip and see if it's been repaired and gotten some of that back."
And, really, that was one of the best parts of the situation. Things that might have had a terrible memory associated with it could now be rewritten. At least in a manner of speaking. In the future, there were infinite possibilities.
"But, you know, nothing tops New York City," she added with a grin, all too aware that her opinion on that was influenced by New York being her hometown. "Of course, as a New Yorker, I'm terribly biased, but it says something of a place when you miss it every single day."