Lia's mother asks her if she's at home to stay. Lia had woken up that morning feeling more off balance than normal. She had been thinking of Sam and how he had won over the homeless woman who hung around their apartment building. He had given her food everyday, saying that if there was going to be a crazy person around the baby, he'd rather it be a benevolent crazy person. After the baby came, the old woman would step back respectfully whenever they'd push the stroller past her.
When her mother asks her what she does all day, Lia searches her voice for criticism, but doesn't find any. She tells her, sleeping, mostly, which isn't entirely untrue. She doesn't tell her about stalking the woman in the park, or leaving the pacifier in.....
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