[Hm...]

I can't even begin to understand what your experience must have been like, but I can somewhat understand the joy of being able to touch things again. For the longest time, I had to wear gloves. [Her expression falls again, but only briefly.] And touching things just wasn't the same.

[She holds a hand up, wiggling her bare fingers.]

But now I don't have to anymore, and after more than a decade, it feels rather nice.