"One time when I was little, my parents took me to an orchard. Daddy set me high in an apple tree. It was like falling up into a storybook, yummy and red and leaf and the branch not shaking a bit. The sun warmed my hair, and the wind pushed my mother into my father's arms, and all the apple-picking parents and children smiled for a long, long time." pg. 66. This quote shows the difference versus how her close their family used to be, and how distant they are now. It shows how they have slowly lost connection.