Chapter 57 Summary

Kate and Cross stop to eat at a downtown Chapel Hill restaurant on their way back from the woods. Kate wants to forget about everything and just get drunk with Cross. Kate tells him a story about her family that she has never told anyone before. She trusts him and feels that he is a wonderful listener. Cross admires her stunning beauty and understands what Casanova saw in her.

Kate had four sisters, including a twin. Her mother kicked her mean-spirited father out of the house when she was four. She tells Cross how times were tough growing up. First her sister Margie died of ovarian cancer at age 26, leaving behind three children. Then, two of her other sisters, including her twin, and then her mother, died of either breast or ovarian cancer. That left only her sister Carol Anne and herself. Kate...