Part 3, The Momemtum of Change, Chapters 23-27 Summary

In chapter twenty-three, Truth 5: Poplars, the narrator is in a dreamlike state. He remembers a weekend where he and Candy drive to hot springs and pick up an old man along the way. They drop the old man off and he says they are good people. In a small hotel room, the couple takes pills because they don't have heroin. The narrator says it's his saddest memory. They leave and go back to Melbourne a few hours later. On the drive home, Candy stops the car and they have sex in the backseat.

In chapter twenty-four, Country Living, Candy's parents give her $10,000 and the couple buys a two-acre farm near their friends Peter and Michael. They are still on methadone. The narrator doubts his new sobriety and drinks and takes pills...