[ It's easy enough to figure out why she chooses to walk astride to him on the right; he's happy to maintain presence in her line of sight as they make their way back to the alleged pile of previously unnoticed winterwear waiting for him at the community hall. He can't imagine it would be comforting to not know exactly where another person was, let alone some strange man she just met in the middle of nowhere. ]

I have. My father's from Québec, and we visited my grandparents there sometimes. That's part of Canada, like Milton. Further south, though, but the winters still get pretty cold. And then I grew up in Upstate New York, by the Great Lakes, so we got lake effect snow.

[ He's not sure if any of that means anything to her, but he can try. ]

You?