It's almost weird how easy it is to admit to the difficulty and he's grateful for how graciously she responds. The military talked to him a little about mental health services and getting help, about his condition and how much harder it is to adapt to an old life than to move on to a new one. Reverse culture shock, they called it. He tried to beat the system by moving somewhere new, but there's a strange and uncomfortable mix of a lot of his old life creeping in.

"The first one?" He asks skeptically, all too eager to tease her to keep his mind off of things that matter. "Didn't that come out like ten years ago?"