I'll skip past all the session stuff and get to the end, which is the last session before she goes away for a couple of weeks. I was going to ignore it and was getting up to leave and she said wait... and then talked about how I was free to email while she was gone, and that she was definitely not going to be around her phone during the day, that she would be surprised if she didn't have cell service in the evenings, but she gets impatient with emailing on her phone so if she replies it won't be a long reply. It was very sweet the way she said all of this. I said I was going to miss her and she said, I'll miss you too. This really surprised me, so I said, Even after all the awful things I've said and done? She said Yes. And I really felt that she meant that. She also volunteered where she was going, which I'm glad to know because I was concerned she might be in hurricane areas.

Oh, and the session before, she gave me some packing materials in an empty box (to keep things from getting broken). I noticed a mailing label on the side and worried that if it was her home address and didn't point it out that she might realize it later and go oh no, the creeper has my home address. Anyway, I pointed to the label without really reading it and she waved it off, saying, I don't really care about that. It was her office address, it turns out, but she didn't care either way and that made me feel like I was not a creeper. It's comforting to have that box and packing materials now.