Cups

As a child suffering from bulimia, Melton takes two cups to bed with her each night. One is full of food and the other is empty so that she can vomit into it. Her parents find these cups and grow very concerned for her.

Mental Hospital

While she is in high school, Melton is admitted into a mental hospital. While there she feels safe because of the small environment with rules to follow. She meets Mary Margaret, her roommate, and decides that perhaps they are the ones who are right about the real world and they see the bad things before anyone else, like canaries in a mine.

Sorority

Melton joins a sorority in college because she understands the rules there since they are the same rules she lived by in high school, except they are out in the open. Several of her sorority sisters are openly...