She wants her mother to keep talking, and the talking is a journey for both of them, her mother remembering things from her own childhood. Lucy asks her mother about people they knew at home. Strange conversations pass in that hospital room. She meets William, who will be her husband at college, though no one in her family attends the wedding. A janitor lets her stay at school until he has to lock the doors so she’ll have a warm place to read and do her homework. Lucy survives because some people are kind to her. Lucy, we learn gradually, was neglected and abused, being left in a locked pickup for hours, day after day. “Her being there, using my pet name, which I had not heard in ages, made me feel warm and liquid-filled, as though all my tension had been a solid thing and now was not.”
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