Summary

The Center is one of the few remaining abortion clinics. It is painted orange, so that it is visible. Its name has been shortened over the years from the Center for Women and Reproductive Health.

Wren does not want to die today. She witnessed Olive’s death and does not want to die that way. She wishes she had told her father she was going to the Center and that she had not asked her Aunt Bex to bring her. She worries that Bex may be dead. The man with the gun orders her to get up.

George recalls his mother once dumping a basket of laundry lit on fire on his father. He had wanted to be different from his father, but knows he was not a good husband. However, he had decided to be a good father, which is why...