Summary

While shopping for food, Elaine gets confused and lost in a department store; items in the Girls’ Department trigger memories of a string of events in her past. She remembers when Cordelia had so much power over her that she resorted to peeling the skin off of her feet. Her memory shifts to the time when her daughters were born, and how she had thought she should have had sons because she did not understand girls. She is startled back to reality by a saleslady and has no idea of how long she has been in that reflective state.

The next time the Santa Claus parade passes in front of the building, Cordelia, Grace, and Carol are invited to watch from the building, but Elaine has to watch from a separate window as punishment for something she has supposedly said. When Elaine’s father comes...