Chapter 25 Summary

The story shifts back to Alice in Heaven now. Cash has called her and they are going out and she doesn't know why. She insists that she has never met him; but Sugar, who is in on the set-up with Letty, assures her that she did, in fact, meet him one day when they were in town. He comes to get her in his ancient pickup truck and they talk about their histories and their families. Cash tells her about his wife's poor health and their two daughters. Alice tells him how much she likes and admires the teenagers in Heaven. "They're a nicer bunch than I'd ever in this world expect a teenager to be," says Alice.

"Cherokee kids know the family, that's sure," Cash says.

He tells her his older daughter is dead and that his father died in 1940 and he...