Chapters 10, 11 and 12 Summary

Dolores tells her grandmother that she's going to college and her grandmother asks why Dolores put her mother through all the grief if she was simply going to give in and go. Grandma doesn't express an opinion either way, but presents Dolores with her college checkbook. Dolores invents a completely different life for herself as she's writing to her intended roommate, who calls herself "Kippy". She says that she has a boyfriend, Derek, who is from England, and a part-time job. Kippy confesses in her own letters that she is still a virgin, though her boyfriend Dante is pressing her. Dolores writes that Derek is doing the same, though she doesn't want to end up pregnant and living in England with Derek.

Before Bernice's death, Grandma had put a deposit on a trip to Amish country with her friends, and it's...