Summary

In Chapter 7, everyone reflected on Jiang’s story. “Cameron gave them a terse update on the situation” (88). Jiang told of the time that her husband almost died of an illness until she told him she loved him. “Don’t die, don’t die, I shouted. I love you” (89). “His eyes cleared for a moment,” and “in a week he was better” (89).

Lily volunteered to go next, but Cameron told her “We’ll need your story more after a while” (90). Then Mr. Pritchett announced “I would like to go now” (91).

In Chapter 8, Mr. Pritchett told the story of how as a boy he loved his mother, who he remembers mostly as being asleep on the couch or away at work. Her best trait is that “she reads to him,” but mostly he is forced to take care of himself, and does most of his...