"It's something she's done for years, ever since our mother died.  She died when I was 10, Trina was 14 at the time.  For the first few months after she died, we both mopped around, like you would expect children to do.  But after that, Trina would make a point of making sure that I wouldn't dwell on the past, which consisted of 'distracting' me.  Her idea of a distraction and my idea of a beating seem to be similar."