In this chapter, the narrator tells us that he was "out of ideas" when he first came to America. He was spending all of his money at the sauna, and he was having sex with a girl named Yumi. Yumi was "surprisingly really into sex" , and the girl riding her was "too heavy" . The narrator says that his parents told him to come to America and cut off his living expenses, but he couldn't. He writes a letter to tell her that he needs to leave, but she writes back saying that she will wait for him when he comes back. He gets his own apartment and starts living on his own. He says that the only person he ever truly loved was Sarah, who said that she "lived life thinking only of me . .