offthebeatenpath

"I went and dumped a whole lot on you at once, and I don't know. In some ways that makes it sound a lot worse than it was," and Em was still doing a bad job explaining. "Day to day, for me, things were pretty good. I got to live my life - which just happened to include letting the right people know if I foresaw trouble coming, and training for how to defend myself when it did. But now, even if I meet mutants I knew before, they aren't the people I knew. I'd probably be a lot worse off if I hadn't known people who'd gone through the same kind of thing."