"It's okay, Cherry," she says gently. "I'm thirty-one. It happened when I was four or five. I remember them enough to know they were good parents," well... as good as eccentric scientists can be. "But yeah, the robots kept me from being lonely. I think I'm less lonely with the robots than with normal people."

She self-conciously adds- "That's... Do you know what Jack did, by the way?"

She doesn't want to break it to her. But she does want Cherry to be mature enough to make a decision rather than just have people lie to her. It might be the same decision she's made- to stay friends with Jack. But it may be otherwise. She's not a child, she should know things. A capacity for forgiveness doesn't come from lack of knowledge.

But it might be up for Rich or Jack to tell.