Epilogue Summary

The last night on the beach, the girls decide to exchange gifts rather than to say goodbye. Carmen gives each girl a frame with three pictures in it. One is of their four mothers when they were young, and one depicts the four girls of the Pants when they were young. The last picture is of them with their families after graduation in the football field, taken only three months before. Bridget's gift is four small chains with four tiny pairs of pants attached as charms. Lena has created four nearly identical drawings. They are pictures of the Pants drawn upside down, and she has added an "e" so the Pants spell "WE." The gift from Tibby is a ten-minute video. Each girl gets a copy. "To brave the undertow, we had learned to hold hands." Epilogue, p. 338

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