"She's okay sometimes," Kate answers, waving it off again when he apologizes. "Dude, don't. I'd much rather people ask questions than just make stupid assumptions. I don't know all the answers, of course, I don't know all the really personal stuff for her, but most of it..." She shrugs. "I don't know, people suck, you know? They said a lot of stupid shit to me over the years, so I'd rather have someone ask me what it's like to my face."

But was Tara happy? That's a question Kate's struggled with a lot over the years. "For a long time I thought my parents were both miserable," she admits. "They didn't seem to like each other very much, they didn't seem to like us, but I think it was just the stress when things got really bad. Mostly yeah, she's happy. She's just also totally crazy."