How It All Goes Down
- In the present, the Supreme Court is still trying to decide who the president will be: Bush or Gore.
- Eva gets thinking about how she doesn't really care about anything anymore, not after the trial.
- It seems that after Kevin's crime, Mary Woolford, the woman from the grocery store in Chapter 1, filed a civil suit against Eva.
- Mary's daughter was killed by Kevin, and Mary was shopping for a settlement.
- Instead of settling, Eva took her to trial, against advice from legal counsel.
- Eva was angry, not really at Mary, but at the hypocrisy of the United States legal system: she can be innocent until proven guilty but sued for absolutely anything, and regardless of whose fault it really is, still be out thousands of dollars in legal fees.
- This gets Eva thinking about her own hypocrisies, like wanting a baby because she was bored.
- Eva writes to Franklin about how she may have seemed stoic during her pregnancy, but it was an act. She hated every minute of it.
- Eva even tried to pretend that the act of giving birth itself didn't hurt.
- Eva asks for an epidural, but by that point, it's too late. Kevin is almost here.