Explain offered life before the world change.

Offred was married. She misses the mundane like teasing her husband and laundry day. Offred was also a mother of a daughter and this figures prominently in her thoughts.

I think about a girl who did not die when she was five; who still does exist, I hope, though not for me. Do I exist for her? Am I a picture somewhere, in the dark at the back of her mind? [...] Eight, she must be now. I've filled in the time I lost, I know how much there's been. They were right, it's easier, to think of her as dead. I don't have to hope then, or make a wasted effort.