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Rebecca is the narrator of the past, through eyes older than her fifteen years. The adults flounder in the current moment, terrified of the future. Maybe the apples hanging in Sam's orchard are more a reliable messenger than everyone in the book? Certainly a possibility!

The repeating patterns are all said to be the rules in family. You just don't know what those are until things go bad. It is easy to tolerate bad behavior, violence and cruelty within family, to gag your heart and voice. It's always been that way, and always will. Until something snaps, and everything you once knew to be true or normal vanishes in one thought, the voice of I''m Done.