She has and she hasn't, and how can that begin to be explained? Half of the places that she's been in her life were probably places that she was and wasn't supposed to be, when she was and wasn't supposed to be there. If Claire stops and thinks about the whole of it and what it entails - from Hiro to New York all the way back to homecoming in Odessa - she inevitably ends up tripping over something that probably on her father could explain, and even then probably not very well.

It's easier to smile, a little, guarded and unsure of the solidity of the ground she's walking on with him, and say, "You mean New York? Or the holodeck." Claire knows what he's talking about - classifying it as 'the real here' can only mean one thing really - but she tries for sarcasm all the same. "Some people like their privacy, whether it's real or not."