Summary

In Chapter 25, Ford describes coming into her own as a woman and experimenting with fashion in her latter years of college. In Chapter 26, Ford recalls receiving a call from her grandmother telling her her mother was in the hospital. Ford’s mother had blood poisoning after not getting treatment for a burst appendix. Ford got in the car and drove to see her mother in Fort Wayne, spending only a few hours with her in the hospital and contemplating how oddly distant their relationship felt, yet how worried she was for her mother at the same time.

In Chapter 27, Ford used her mother’s near-death experience as motivation to seize the day and visit her father in prison after many years. She could barely remember the reasons she had previously refused to do so, and set off with her friend Trent for moral...