At the beginning of the novel April wakes in her bedroom and looks at a prism Steve gave her that hangs from a window. It symbolizes a 'years worth of rainbows' together. April takes the prism with her, a rare possession from her past. At the end of the novel, she meets a boy in a mall who is considering buying a prism for his mother. April tells him it is a symbol for new beginnings. Meeting the boy and starting a new life is her new beginning and a reason for her to take out her old prism and hang it up again.
April's suitcase is filled with the only tangible possessions she has left of her former life. Among her clothes and the prism Steve gave her after a year of dating,.....
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