"About six, seven months," she said. She actually knew down to the hour, but didn't want to seem too precocious. Her experience had taught her that people didn't respond well to her exact mathematics. Either they looked at her strangely or assumed that she was making some kind of joke.

Living life more honestly didn't necessarily mean she needed to share every single detail of every single truth.

Or maybe she was sliding back into old habits. Difficult to say, this early into her new resolution.

"My friend Jim helped to create a calendar to help us keep better track of the days."