Andrea's best friend, Lily is still a student, struggling to get her PhD in Russian Literature while working multiple jobs to put herself through school. Andrea is Lily's only real family aside from an aging and sick grandmother. Lily has been raised by her grandmother since she was in eighth grade, after her parents left her at a commune in New Mexico to follow the Grateful Dead. Lily has always been different, living life in the moment and enjoying it, never one to settle down.