Summary

As the team warms up, 2 talks with the others about how, and why, she is knitting scarves to raise funds in support of interned migrants – “Mexican children in cages” (39). 11 points out that the children are from all over Central America; 25 comments on how expensive they are; and 8 comments on how she always wants to refer to that part of the world as Middle America.

This leads into a diversion about how Middle America actually means just average Americans, with 11 saying that “we drive pick-up trucks and don’t like cuss words” (41). Conversation about what various parents drive leads to 13 teasing 11 about her sexy mom (Dr. Feinstein), a therapist. 13 also teases 11 about her pot dealer brother Kevin masturbating to Dr. Feinstein’s online picture, which 11 says is really wrong, since Kevin is her mom’s patient. They start to pointedly...