Piecing together facts is not "reliving the events", and in this case "the facts" are both slim and contradictory.
I think you confuse Empathy with Sympathy. Empathy is the ability to see perspectives, not an affinity.
Empathy would be feeling their emotions, it goes beyond sympathy.
It's "Direct identification with, understanding of, and vicarious experience of another person's situation, feelings, and motives."
"the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for empathy"
"understanding and entering into another's feelings"
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