Summary

A few days later, Anna receives word of a two-year grant that will allow her to compile and analyze the last of her work. She wishes that she had researched ways of coping with Huntington’s rather than just the neuroscience behind it. She considers becoming an activist to convince people, like the Catholic church, that gene testing and modified fertilization. She also considers advocating for euthanasia for people like Tom’s father whose cognitive abilities are almost nonexistent. Anna writes an acceptance letter, but tears it up.

Tom begins to open up about his father and says that he was healthy until he had an uncharacteristic meltdown. Anna begins having nightmares of Tom’s potential decline and writes that she has always been good at denial, especially after her father’s death. She believes she failed her patients because she never...