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Reese thinks back to the first time Emma menstruated. They were swimming in a creek, and Charlie panicked, thinking she was dying. “That night, I dug into my books and spent hours reading about women’s bodies and the way things worked. Emma didn’t look like those pictures, but I knew that in order to fix her, in order for her to live, I had to get past all that” (65).
Back in the present day, Reese visits Annie in the hospital and finds both her and Cindy asleep in the room, surrounded by a pile of papers, all describing how to get a loan. Cindy and Annie wake up, and Reese gives Annie a plush frog (not a bear like most other people have given her). Cindy thanks him and invites him over for dinner. In response, he invites Cindy and Annie to take a ride on one of the