[A year ago, she would've jumped at the chance to change the subject by pointing out that he can obviously do more than sway from side to side, but she's made peace with what happened to her so it's easy enough to talk about.]

I didn't come here from the place I'm originally from like a lot of people did. I was somewhere else for a year, and I only found out about the first time when someone I knew told me about it.

[If that explanation sounds needlessly complicated, well... the entire situation is pretty complicated.]