Summary

Chapter 13 reverts to the journal. The writer recovered a box of “things I wanted to forget,” including poems, a couple of love letters he never mailed, and the journal. He wrote in that journal when he was 12-years-old, “the summer I lost my mother.” He did not want to read the journal, but he needed to in order to understand the past.

Chapter 14 picks up in the present. Mariana meets Fred at a pub called the Eagle, a place she had frequented with Sebastian. Mariana addresses the issues head-on, saying there will never be anything between them. She cites the age difference (Fred is 28, she is 36), which Fred dismisses. He says he had a premonition in which he proposed and she said yes. He is embarrassed to discover Mariana's husband died a little more than a year earlier. He turns the...