Summary

Part 4, titled "Meet Me At the Playground," is also its own chapter, titled "Swing Me." All characters' stories come to a culmination point in this last section of the novel. The characters' stories go back and forth between one another, which is the way they are presented in this summary.

At the beginning of this section, Todd and Sarah planned to start new lives together. They would each write a letter to their respective spouses and leave town for a period of several days, coming back only after the shock of their departure wore off. They planned to run away on Tuesday when Richard returned from California.

Richard was at Beachfest in San Diego, a Slutty Kay Fan Club event he had given into after much deliberation. There, he learned that Kay's real name was Carla.

The culmination...