The narrator tells us that he was abandoned when he was a child and that he and his brother were taken in by a church orphanage when they were only three years old. The narrator says that her mother had strange men come and go, and that her brother was kept in a nursery until he was eight months old. She says that she and her brother were victims of "child neglect" and that they were "victims of what you would call 'child neglect'" . She tells the narrator that when she left the orphanage, she felt invincible and that she had seen her brother in magazines before. She asks the narrator not to feel sorry for her because she doesn't want him to feel like her girlfriend is pathetic. She also says that if they put both of their pieces together, it would make a beautiful half moon. She adds that she knows that her injury hurts, but that everything will be fine now that she's back at work. She mentions that her sister has been a great help to her, and the narrator asks if she could work on her own birthday.