Summary

The narrator continues his recollections of the worries he had as a child, noting that they were always worried they would have to move. One family, the Ballingers, moved out of the apartment building and the narrator remembers how quickly it all happened: "And then other people, complete strangers, showed up and went in and started living there, and it was as if the Ballingers had never been there" (5).

He goes on to say that they were also always very worried about Jesus, because they attended Catholic school and were taught that the eucharist was the body of Christ. The narrator remembers feeling guilty about thinking about a girl's body during church. He recalls the way the nuns used to scold them in school to "make an example" of certain kids (5). In particular, he remembers worrying about being sat on by Sister Conrad: "That...