Ximena told me it was pointless.

Ruthann Bello said it was not pointless, it was just not for anybody who is currently a child.

Part Twenty-Five: Six

They were all at my house three weeks ago, which is rarer than people imagine — six adult women with jobs and a sixteen-year-old with a social life, in one room, is about a four-times-a-year event and it has to be scheduled in October for December.

Somebody brought up Maren.