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Section 1: Prologue-Chapter Three

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Malloy, Aimee. The Perfect Mother, HarperCollins, 2018. Ebook.

• The book opens with an epigraph: a fragment from the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice."

• The epigraph is followed by a prologue, which opens on Mother's Day, May 14, in an unknown year.

• The prologue opens with a single-word paragraph: "Joshua."

• The first-person narrator wakes suddenly on a rainy morning.

• She feels sick, which is unsurprising, because she has been waking with a sick feeling every day since "he" left (1).

• This time, however, she feels much worse than usual, and the pain is bad enough that the narrator crawls out of bed and across the floor to the phone.

• She is uncertain about whom to call, because "he" is the only person she wants to talk to, and she knows he will be angry if she...

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