Book 2, Chapter 25, (Fragments) Summary

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, September 25,26,27, 2006 Henry = 43: Clare = 35

Henry has been gone all day when he arrives on the living room floor shivering and white from cold. Clare rings for an ambulance. At Mercy, they wrap Henry in thermal blankets trying to restore his core temperature; Clare is unwilling to divulge how Henry got frostbite in September. Even though Henry has not suffered brain damage, he does have to have his feet amputated. Henry screams the first time he sees his stumps.

Tuesday, October 17 2006 Henry = 43: Clare =35

Henry returns home on October 10; Clare nurses him as he drifts in and out of morphine-induced sleep. He does not talk and seems unwilling to be apart of Clare and Alba's world.

Wednesday and Thursday, October 18, 19 and Thursday October 26 2006 Henry = 43: Clare = 35

Clare is in her studio making paper and sculpting an angel, not a traditional...