I guess I always knew, in some subterranean way, Diane and I would end up back together. / We are bound, ankle to ankle, a monstrous three-legged race.
-- Narrator (Prologue)

Importance: Kit shares with her reader at the beginning that even though she tried to put Diane and the memory of the secret she had shared out of her mind, she had always sensed that Diane would make her way into her life again. Kit indicates that she and Diane are tied together. The binding factor in their relationship seems to be Severin and the way both Diane and Kit are awed by Severin’s intelligence and career.

But they all want in on the grant. It’s the sexy one, maybe a career-maker. I’ve been waiting for it, working for it so long.
-- Narrator (Part 1: Now)

Importance: Even though Kit’s male counterparts joke about PMDD, a disorder with which males do not suffer, Kit knows...