- Toswiah/Evie remembers how her mother used to play records; the words get stuck in her head sometimes now.
- She thinks about her friendship with Lulu and how hard she and Lulu hugged before the men came to take the Green family away.
- Toswiah/Evie recalls the men who drove her family to a safe house, how Toswiah was named for her grandmother, every detail of what she and her sister wore the night they left Denver, and Matt Cat.
- She stepped outside herself and watched it all happen.