Part 4, April 23, 1986 to July 25, 1986 Summary

April 23, 1986 - In this, her first diary entry for several months, Laura describes her agonized frustration at being "good" all the time and her deteriorating friendship with Donna, writing that she doesn't feel safe talking with Donna any more but feels she has to try.

April 24, 1986 - Laura includes a poem about skipping "before he told me to lie down / or to say things", and about how she has been "blind ... since the skipping stopped." She writes about feeling like something very bad and real is happening, and concludes with the exclamation-marked hope that Donna is still her friend.

June 21, 1986 - Laura describes how, as the result of a long conversation with Donna, she realized that Donna's thoughts (in general, and about sex in particular) are much purer than hers, but that she can't try to think...