How It All Goes Down
- Dolores tells Grandma that she's going to college after all, and Grandma gives Dolores a bankbook that shows Ma depositing college money every fourteen days. This makes her feel even guiltier, as though somehow being a bratty teenager caused her mother's death.
- She invents a nicer life for herself through her letters to Kippy, complete with a British boyfriend named Derek, a father who is a pediatrician, and job at McDonald's.
- Grandma takes down all the photos in the stairs because she says it's time to re-wallpaper.
- She booked a trip a month before Ma's death and she considers not going, but Dolores convinces her to go so that she can have time to herself.
- Dolores chows down on TV dinners in front of the TV, just the way Hungry Man intended.
- One day she gets a letter addressed to her, and inside she finds five hundred bucks. Yay. But it's from the wife of the truck driver who killed Ma. Boo.
- Dolores opens the letter, but it's really the letter that opens her, causing all sorts of bad memories to resurface.