Summary

Deck, Sandy, and the girls visit a Polynesian restaurant where Deck has taken the girls many times. Sandy confides in Deck that things have gotten out of control with her involvement in the revolutionary movement, but Deck is not consoling. Birdie realizes that the restaurant is tacky, although it seemed exotic to her previously. Birdie is surprised after Deck drives them all back home and she is told that Cole is going on a trip with her father and Carmen to Brazil. After the two pull away in Deck’s car, Birdie realizes how serious the change is. She runs inside to seek comfort from her mother, but Sandy is incapacitated with grief on the floor.

That night, while Birdie sleeps, she is visited by Cole, who leaves Golliwog in the bed. The next morning, Sandy wakes Birdie before dawn. Birdie tells her that Cole came...