DAWN’S PARENTS LOOK DIFFERENT, standing there on Nana’s porch in Chicago. Wendy looks older than Dawn remembers. Her roots are showing and the crow’s-feet around her eyes are deeper.

Cam looks smaller. He looks tired. He has his arm around Wendy and he holds her close, and the two of them look at Dawn standing in Nana’s doorway and they seem to nudge closer to each other, and Cam holds Wendy tighter.

And Dawn can see that her mother is scared. And Cam is scared, too.

They’re scared of Dawn, both of them, and it just feels so…

wrong.