On Monday, Ginny explores the Chelsea, her childhood home, starting in the relatively empty attic, remembering how, as children, she and Rose had created their own small world inside their mother's closet, how the women from the Lutheran Church had, after her death, taken everything away. The women had been thorough. She decides to put Jess in her old room, makes the bed, lies down—and remembers having once been sexually assaulted by her father, in that bed......
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