Summary

Robbie's grandfather speaks to the last part of Robbie's email. No, he tells Robbie, he did not hurt his feelings by asking if he had regrets. Because of how much he loves Robbie, he does not think Robbie could ever offend him.

He realizes now that his regrets relate to the "critical period" preceding and following the election (3). At the time, he and Robbie's grandmother "were doing, every night, a jigsaw puzzle each" (3). While sitting at the dining-room table working on their puzzles, "the TV in the next room blared" on and on about innumerable things "that had never before happened," things he and his wife could not have ever "imagined happening" (4). The media kept saying that everything would soon be fixed, and go back to normal. Everyone wrongly assumed that some more knowledgeable and capable "adults would arrive...to set things right...