Yes, I think you're on to something... I think it's that everything is interwoven, interconnected. Everything. But she treats each instance as an individual episode that can be summerized and tied up in a neat bow... thereby ending the connection to other events.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to tie events together and give them meaning. Trying to untangle this web... and she's like gift wrapping each package with its own paper and bow and handing it back to me.