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1. For what major change is Evvie preparing when the reader first meets her in the prologue entitled First?

When the prologue opens, Evvie is packing a suitcase, loading it into her car, and preparing to grab a few more of her belongings from the house she shares with her husband Tim. Evvie has decided to leave her husband and she is preparing to do so. By leaving before her husband returns from his shift as a physician, Evvie hopes to avoid a confrontation with Tim.

2. What event is revealed at the end of the prologue to have brought a halt to Evvie's plans?

As Evvie hurries back toward the house to grab a few more of her belongings, she receives a phone call. A nurse from the hospital tells Evvie that her husband Tim has been in a terrible car accident and that she should hurry as fast as she can to her husband's side. To demonstrate how determined Evvie had been to leave Tim once and for all, the narrator states that for a split second upon hearing the news of Tim's accident, she had considered telling the nurse to call Tim's mother instead because she had already decided not to be Tim's wife anymore.

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