Beautiful... poignant... riveting. The characters are so real and believable. It's great how you're telling the background in little bits, in between the dialog and action. It's very digestible and it flows and keeps the pace. I wish I had this as an example for a post about how to add your story's background information that I wrote a few days ago!
Umm... Normally I'm only wheeled in when people need a bad example.
Wonderful, expressive comment. Thank you so much.