Lia sits in the park with her mother's blue suitcase and the lunch Sarah had packed. Becky, Kelly and Ayinde are gathered around her. Sam had flown back to California two weeks before to furnish the house he'd picked out; she has stayed behind to pack, close up the apartment and say goodbye. Kelly says they'll miss her; does she really have to go? Lia says it's where Sam is and her work, if she ever works again and she wants to be able to visit Caleb's grave.
Becky informs them she's pregnant. Kelly exclaims, "You had sex, didn't you?" and Becky says she can't get anything by her. When they ask what Mimi said, she admits they haven't told her. The truce is still holding, although she's bitten her tongue so many times.....
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