Summary

In Chapter 9, Al treated Jake’s head wound with supplies from a First Aid kit. Jake noticed that the picture of Harry with his GED was gone from the Wall of Celebrity. Jake wondered why Al still remembered Harry since he was not working as a janitor at the school. They checked the website but did not remember having met the politician whose picture had replaced Harry’s on the Wall of Celebrity. Al did not have any good answers and Jake was too tired to think about it, so he went home to sleep with a promise to meet up with Al later that day.

Driving Al home, Jake shared his belief that the past was obdurate in proportion to the importance of the occurrence they were trying to change. At Al’s house, Jake was surprised when a nurse came...