"Entirely seperate," she replied, looking forward as she sipped her drink. "I mean, Mount Rose, I guess it's just your average small town and the knowin' everyone is kind of nice, but... I don't care to go back. Ma's there... Loretta of course, but," she shrugged a little. "No one ever amounts to anythin'. They grow old drinkin' and smokin' and have nothin' but a trailer and lung cancer to show for it."

Amber cast him a wry grin. "Not that I'm bitter or anythin'."