I have to say that the story was pretty realistic as far as two people with that kind of trauma. It took a lot for each of them to come to terms with their pasts, unlike many stories where it is more on the order of “Presto-change-o; you’re now happier than a starving weasel in a henhouse and your trauma is as if it never was.” Magic wands and fairy Godmothers are in fairy tales and shouldn’t be in “realistic” fiction.
