"In the past, I was just this," the narrator tells us, but now she's leading a "happy life." She's married to a nice guy, who doesn't seem to care about her past. Allie, she says, is telling her to "never appear in life again" . The narrator asks the doctor if her husband's injury isn't serious enough for him to go to the hospital. The doctor says it's fine, but he'll let the narrator know when he's ready to go home. He tells the narrator that they're going to have a dinner party and invite their parents, too. They're not going to eat meat or hot pot, though, because that's not "hygienic." The narrator tells the doctor that he and his wife act like "ordinary husbands and wives" , and that they work hard at home or out in the kitchen. He's happy and scared, he says, but life is what it is.