She asks her dad for advice, but gets nothing. She imagines having an imaginary conversation with her imaginary dad about not fitting in.The pages are filled with magazine pictures of men who resembles the father she's dreamed up in her head.Hope sits down with one of her 11 scrapbooks, the one she calls "The Dads.".She began punching the bag harder and harder, streams of tears running down her face, until there was nothing left in her.Hope was at the gym with Addie's friend, Mickey, who had been teaching her some basic boxing moves, when something inside of her snapped.She takes us back to the day she used them to knock out all the rage she felt toward her mother for abandoning her. The boxing gloves she's had since she was 11 hang behind the door.That night Hope realizes that all of the stuff she's unpacked in her bedroom looks like it belongs in her room but that she doesn't and wonders when she'll feel it.
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