Chapter 191: May 4
- Alice is proud that she and her siblings can get themselves ready for school efficiently without the help of her parents.
Chapter 192: May 4, 9:50pm
- When her dad calls with the update, things don't look good for Gramps. Everyone is pretty upset, which is understandable.
Chapter 193: May 5
- Gramps dies in the night, and Alice is preoccupied with the reality of his death.
- They are flying out for his funeral the day after tomorrow.
Chapter 194: May 8
- At Gramps's funeral, Alice can't seem to equate the corpse in the casket with her grandfather.
- She tries to be strong like her Gran (i.e., not cry), but she can't help it, and assumes she's made a fool out of herself (instead of accepting that a normal part of grieving includes crying like a baby).
Chapter 195: May 9
- Gran is going to move in with Alice's family until she can get her feet under her in a new apartment closer to them.
- Alice is adamant that she is going to take care of her as much as possible.
Chapter 196: May 12
- When Alice sees signs of spring outside, she starts sobbing uncontrollably because it makes her think of Gramps's body rotting underground.
- She wishes she understood the concept of resurrection better, but wonders how she can understand death and dying when she doesn't even get how electricity works.
Chapter 197: May 14
- Alice has such a bad nightmare about Gramps's rotting corpse that her mom gets her hot milk and takes her for a walk outside to calm her down.
- They have a nice talk, and Alice is thankful for her mom.
Chapter 198: May 15
- Alice is having a hard time concentrating in school because she's exhausted from being hyper-focused on Gramps's death.
Chapter 199: May 16
- Alice's dad takes her to an anti-war rally at the university.
- There, one of his colleagues spews a bunch of depressing statistics about the downfall of America's youth—think: the rising rates of suicide, venereal disease, pregnancy, mental illness, and crime. Yikes, this guy must be a blast at cocktail parties.
- Somehow, hearing all of this makes Alice feel better about her walk on the dark side. (Misery loves company and all that.)
Chapter 200: May 19
- Someone plants a joint in Alice's purse, which understandably freaks her out—she feels like her old friends are out to get her.
- She bails school and takes a cab to her dad's office, where he tells her she has to be strong.