It's raining hard, and dad won't be home for Christmas. He'll miss the family dinner, but he'll make it back for the kids' party. The narrator tells us that this is the time of year when everyone is supposed to be "generously generous and happy" and hang decorations in their houses to show how special they are. When she was five, she hated it. She says, "I was only five, and I hated it" . She's not just talking about the fact that her dad isn't home, she's also talking about how she doesn't like Christmas because it's all about presents. She tells her friends that they've baked a special cake for her and brought her a present. They're going to send her to school, but she'll have more time to spend with her family. She asks why her dad hasn't killed her yet, and the narrator tells her that he's "too busy protecting" to be her father's son-in-law. She also says that she has ambitions and wants to become a doctor, but her dad is too busy with his own business. She wants to be like her friends, and her dad shouldn't touch her genitrix, because that's her dad's job. She adds that she really didn't look forward to Christmas morning that year, because she was too excited about her family's party. She wishes she could play with her dolls, because they're her "treasures," and she'd never