Stories
- Dad finally leaves the house to get a haircut, and Corinna goes straight for her mom's journal. She's sad when she sees that most of the pages are blank. She decides to ration out the pages.
- There's not much on the first page: Sophie's twenty-six and wondering if all musicians express themselves better with music than words.
- At the next meeting of the group, Clare talks about her dad. The other kids' parents' deaths are recent, but Clare's dad died three years ago.
- Ms. DuBoise asks what it feels like after that much time has passed. Clare says that in some ways it's easier, but she's starting to forget things about him, and sometimes she thinks forgetting is worse than remembering.
- Max says his mom still won't tell the kids his dad died by suicide—she thinks they believe it was a heart attack—and he wonders if she'll ever tell him, or if he'll ever tell her he knows.