Summary

Irene gives Sam $600 to buy a car. She visits Tom at his garage and buys the car for less than $400. Tom is businesslike and acts like the night they spent together never happened. This upsets Sam and she drives her new car home crying. She shows her new car to Dawn who is excited because Ken has mentioned their renting an apartment and getting married and she hasn’t even told him about the pregnancy.

Sam drives Emmett around and is surprised by how many cars there are in Hopewell. She had never noticed before and now she feels like they are all moving in opposite directions. She comes home and begins looking through her mother’s old room for letters from her father, Dwayne. She is looking for letters that Dwayne wrote Irene when he was in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She...