Pages 375 - 390 Summary

Paul and Michelle are arguing about having a child, as they discuss the possibility of marriage. Her career is just taking off; he knows she will leave him. He heads for Lexington to play music at a pub. Paul no longer needs a formal venue to enjoy performing, now that his father is gone. When he arrives at the old house, there are ashes floating; he looks for his mother and finds her on the back porch where she has been burning photographs. She tells him what she has learned about Phoebe, and he is stunned. His fear of not being good enough, which had morphed into anger against David when Paul was a child, now seems clear. he remembers that his father saw each person as living in their own universe; he is surprised David didn't give him away, too...