A small, indoor amphitheater shaped space used for sleeping. It's dark. Taking my place among the blankets I realize that I'm lying between two strangers. They start to stir and I hope that I can get to sleep unnoticed. I think they are squatter punk types and I start to worry about lice.

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In a huge movie theater with multiple screens. It had been renovated at some point and one of them is defunct. We are way in the back - Mom, Audrey and I. Also there are some other people with us who feel like they're part of the clan. Down the aisle, to the right of us, is a fat Persian man and his date, an insignificant woman. He asks me to come over and sit in the seat next to him. Then it's just the two of us and he starts to ask about my mother. Says that I should introduce them... maybe he can satisfy her. I get up and swing one of my shoes (a loafer) at his face, coming inches from his nose. I consider having another swipe but go back to my seat where I find Maryann sitting next to me. We clasp hands on her lap and it reminds me of the way I sat with aunt Helen in the parish hall the day of my grandmother's funeral.