Epilogue, Rosewood Rosary, p. 214 - 237 Summary

In narration in which she refers to herself as "you," Chi-hon describes her visit to Italy in the company of her boyfriend, Yu-bin. Spontaneous and secretive, Chi-hon has traveled without telling any of her family that she is gone, afraid of being accused that she has forgotten Mom. As she slips away from Yu-bin for a day by herself, Chi-hon visits the Vatican, at first following in the path of a tour guide (whose words she doesn't really listen to) but later separating herself from her tour group and reading a letter from her sister, stuffed unread into her purse. In the letter, the sister describes how, when she returned from America, Mom gave her a small persimmon tree, saying if she took care of it, it would bear fruit when she (the sister) was...