If you think about it, humans make themselves have uses nobody needed, and feel attacked when told so because of our denial. This is the perspective of a middle schooler: the insignificance of caring.
Lolly meets a someone, or a version of someone, she was fortunate enough to have never seen before. Kat knows she won’t see them much longer. (Disclaimer: this chapter may gross some people out)
This is the story of how I almost lived a poor life. When I was younger hardships were the hardest; this is how I lived next to a pedofile, could barely afford things, and still made it out alive.