Who knows how she really felt about verbally expressing her news -- I'd give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe a part of her self-preservation was to palm the news off as no-big-deal, a sort of denial on her part. She may really not be ready to accept it ALL. Just thinking out loud...

“It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.”

― Lemony Snicket

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