Summary

At 3:47 p.m. Mia is in recovery, where she watches as a social worker tells her grandparents she is in grave condition. She learns that various relatives are on the way to the hospital, but there is no mention of Adam, whom she really wants to see. She recalls that after the night of the Yo Yo Ma concert, she and Adam were uncomfortable with each other for several weeks. Although she enjoyed seeing his band play, she stood off to the side and out of the way. After a month of dating, she took him to meet her parents and afterward they were alone in her room. She was a virgin, and he was not. Their first experience together did not involve intercourse. Each explored the body of the other as if they were a musical instrument. The awkwardness...