Summary

Lucy and Darren decide to move in together in Chapter 42, and start hunting for a new apartment that will be both of theirs rather than staying in either one of their existing apartments. They brainstorm ideas about what they are looking for and when Darren suggests two bedrooms, Lucy’s mind immediately goes to babies. They find a place that they love and move in three weeks later. They buy loads of silly things that they find sweet or funny to fill their new space with, and Lucy thinks about how different moving in with Darren is to moving in with Gabe.

In Chapter 43, Gabe and Lucy meet for coffee in the spring, just as the Freedom Tower has gone up. They do not talk about Ground Zero or anything that happened, keeping the conversation more in the present. When Lucy asks Gabe...