Lorelai is eleven now.

She reads two grades above level and she still watches a room before she comes into it, and Dr.

Boateng says that some of that is what happened and some of that is simply who she is, and that it is not anyone’s job to sand it off her.

She has a friend named Priya who comes over most weekends and who has, at last count, three bearded dragons.

She still keeps a notebook.