[He kind of...pauses, then, the sort of thing that tends to happen when someone realizes they've said something odd and aren't entirely sure how to address it. And after a moment there's another laugh, odd and breathless, and a bit of a shrug along with it.]

Certainly so...? I'd think it would be infinitely more terrifying to be receiving memories from someone completely fundamentally different - if there are similarities, even if they're slight, it will make the entire process a bit easier to handle.

I expect there to be differences, surely, but nothing so drastic that I couldn't recognize the person that I once was as myself; that would be far worse, I'd imagine.