Summary

Chapter 12 is titled “A Child at Any Age,” and it covers the winter of 1998 through 2003. Regina arrived at Julia's house and immediately remembered being there as a child. She and her sisters had called this the Happy House. Julia recounted how she became acquainted with Regina. Julia married a man who had three children and they had three more. They needed extra income and Julia offered babysitting in her home. Paul and Julia's husband, Frank, were brothers. Cookie and Paul had dated for a period of time, and Cookie answered one of Julia's advertisements. Regina was only a year old when Julia began keeping Julia, Camille, and Cherie. One day, Cookie left a suitcase when she dropped off the girls, saying it was their toys. Instead, it was their clothing, which was filled with cockroaches. Cookie told Julia that Regina was Paul's...