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Prologue and Chapters 1-4

• In the Prologue, Ronnie is preparing for her father's funeral.

• Ronnie's mother comes into the room and asks her to tell her the story of her final months with her father.

• Ronnie thinks of when it all began and shows her mother a newspaper clipping of a news article about a church fire; Ronnie believes it all began with the fire.
• In Chapter 1, Ronnie is being forced to spend the summer with her father in North Carolina, a man she has not spoken to in three years because he deserted the family.

• Ronnie has also not played the piano in that amount of time even though she was something of a child prodigy because it was something she once shared with her father.

• Ronnie wishes she was already eighteen and could stay in New York, but she will not turn eighteen until August, and...

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