Part 3: Chapters 19-24 Summary

Chapter 19. Twelve years later Lulu wakes to her unhappy ten-year-old daughter. Lulu and Drew are still married and have an eight-year-old in addition to their older daughter. Merry continues to live in the apartment on the side of their two family home. Lulu works as in internist with a medical group in downtown Boston. Lulu specializes in older women. One of Lulu's favorite patients, an older woman whose husband recently died from cancer, comes to see her for an employment physical. Lulu is concerned about the results of the exam. That night, the night before Lulu's birthday, is the anniversary of their mother's death. Merry and Lulu watch a sad movie they think their mother might have liked.

Chapter 20. Lulu dislikes celebrating her birthday because it only reminds her of her mother's death and her failure to protect her...