PART FIVE - THANKSGIVING

SECTION ONE (Pages 285-288)

Summary

It is five years since Dad has died, and the family, minus Maureen, is getting together at Jeannette and her new husband, John's, old country farmhouse for Thanksgiving. Mom arrives with Lori on the train, and the two of them make quite a pair - Mom in four ratty sweaters and a shawl and Lori in a cape and a fedora. Mom is grayer now, but she still has rosy cheeks and bright eyes. John tells Lori and Mom all about the countryside as they drive home from the train station. Jeannette mentions how she loves John for all sorts of reasons, but especially because he finds her scar interesting. The scar means that she is........

Notes

By the end of the book, the reader can appreciate that most of the Walls family have come to terms with how they have........

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