Eggs

David and Primrose do not see each other for a while. David spends his days practicing with his yo-yo, reading Beetle Bailey without laughing, and riding his bike. On weekends, David’s father spends more time with him, taking him on a series of fun adventures.

Primrose continues to scavenge and sell items at the flea market. She also installs flower boxes and a short white picket fence around her van, and John helps her to set up a birdbath. Primrose feels that her van has become her home.

David adheres even more rigidly to his various rules, and he even begins to make up new ones for himself. Sometimes, at night, he feels like his mother is close by. One day, David’s yo-yo string breaks, so he fits it with a new one. As he absent-mindedly plays with the broken string while watching cartoons, he looks down to find that he has braided it.

David finds a television show featuring a man who can read people’s fortunes and commune with the dead. People wait in line to tell the man about their deceased loved ones or pets so that he can channel them. Sometimes he hears a