[Given the number of things Mandy has seen in her life--including a large number of things she doesn't actually remember--a bowing butterfly who has swapped places with a person is...okay, it's bizarre, but not enough to be remarkable. She still has no idea what that says about her or her sanity]

Strange would be quite the understatement for some of the people I've known. Which is hardly an insult, for most of them. If most of them were normal...well, they wouldn't have been in my life.

When in New York? [she pauses a bit, laughing] God, that still sounds bloody bizarre to say out loud. But I was working the dive scene there before I showed up here, so it's...well, as home as anywhere was, I suppose.

[she turns, having to realign herself just a moment to remember it's not the man asking, because she's damn sure he would know] Usually a very sappy sort of song where the narrator moaning a bit about a lost love or one they didn't get the chance to have in the first place.

[yes, she fully recognizes the irony in specializing in those when she will claim she's not sappy about Brian. Claim being the key word there]