Summary

The next section is titled “Journal of Rose Ingrid Castle.” Rose described a trip to Paris with Owen. He caught a little girl who was falling. Rose was happy and sad, feeling the desire to give Owen a child. Rose is distracted because Fern is not answering her phone calls. Rose felt she never did things right as a child. She could constantly hear her mother reinforcing the idea that she was stupid, did not take care of Fern, and was selfish. She sometimes wet the bed, and her mother berated her for that as well. Rose begged for months to see a doctor and when she finally did, she was diagnosed with diabetes, which explained why she wet the bed and was often thirsty. Fern read about diabetes and pointed out things Rose could not eat. Nina always became angry when Rose...