How It All Goes Down
- Jeannette starts the seventh grade. She isn't friends with Dinitia anymore.
- Jeannette thinks that Dinitia is pregnant with her mom's boyfriend's baby.
- Jeannette goes to visit Dinitia at home, but Dinitia's mom's boyfriend won't let Jeannette see her.
- Later, Jeannette learns that Dinitia was arrested for stabbing the man to death.
- Worried about her awkward looks in middle school, Jeannette makes her own braces with a wire coat hanger and some rubber bands.
- Dad tells Jeannette these braces are a "goddamn feat of engineering genius" (3.18.26) and that they're working.
- Someone tell the ghost of Joan Crawford that wire hangers are good for something.