[That's... unfortunate. And there's a niggling sense of something odd there, though maybe she's just reading too much into the girl's expression. Parents vanish all the time. Especially irresponsible fathers. But that's hardly the child's fault.]
I'm sorry. It's... difficult to lose a parent in such uncertain circumstance. Your mother?
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I'm sorry. It's... difficult to lose a parent in such uncertain circumstance. Your mother?