When Katie, her mother, and Sammy return home, Lynn is in bed sick. Katie's mother is upset when Katie comments on the green pallor of Lynn's skin. She relegates the younger children to the living room to sleep that night in case the illness is contagious.
Katie takes care of Sammy, taking him to watch TV at the Muramotos,' feeding him his dinner, bathing him, and then putting him to bed on the couch, leaving the floor for herself, which annoys her. Katie is so annoyed; she does not wipe the ring out of the bathtub after her own bath. Her mother tells her to clean it up. She does not want to, but then even her father gets angry with her, and her father hardly ever gets angry with her. Katie does what.....
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