Part 7 Summary

This section begins with several fragmented entries with no dates, the contents of which refer to the narrator being in hospital with several broken bones, nails ripped out of her fingers, hair ripped out of her head, self-induced claw marks on her face, and continuing hallucinations about being eaten by worms. Eventually a more lengthy entry reveals that one night while the narrator was babysitting, she ate some chocolate covered peanuts that had been laced with acid, and had hallucinated that the worm-eaten body of her grandfather had come for her. Later entries reveal that neighbors heard her screaming, saw that she was doing violence to herself, and locked her in a closet so she wouldn't harm the baby. The police were called, and the narrator was taken away. Later, the diaries record how Jan and other drug-using students falsely told police that...