When She Was Good 101-200

These pages start when Em is in her flashback. She’s remembering when she and Pamela ran away from their father and stepmother. They found an apartment, but after living in it for a few months, they got kicked out for not paying the rent. They went to live in a homeless shelter. Em held a lot of different jobs, and always got fired. Then, it goes back to the present. Em is living on her own. Em becomes fascinated with this woman that lives in her apartment. The woman looks sort of like her mother, so that’s probably why Em feels some sort of a connection to her. Em wants to make a garden in front of her apartment complex because her mother always gardened. Her landlord won’t let her put one in because he says if he lets one person have a garden, everyone would have to. He eventually lets her though, so she starts a garden. There’s a little girl that comes to visit her when she gardens, but Em doesn’t let her help at all because she thinks she’ll screw everything up. Em still doesn’t have a job and she’s constantly looking for one. Em goes up to see the Louise, the random lady that she feels a connection to. Louise just thinks she’s some sort of freak, but even so, Em keeps dreaming that they’ll become friends some day.