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- - - - She's a grandma, the guardian of Orvil, Loother and Lony. "When she went to tell the boys to go to bed, she heard one of them shush the other two. “What’s that?” she said. “Nothing, Grandma,” Loother said. “Don’t ‘nothing, Grandma’ me,” she said. “It’s nothing,” Orvil said. "(page 4).
        She has a job delivering mail in a mail truck. "Opal gets into her mail truck, starts it, and heads back to the main office."(page 8)
        She doesn't trust people and has trust issues. " Opal likes numbers. Numbers are consistent. You can count on them. But for Opal, certain numbers are good and others are bad. Even numbers are generally better than odd ones, and numbers that have some kind of mathematical relationship are good too. She reduces addresses to a single number by adding them together, then judges the neighbors based on their reduced number. Numbers don’t lie. Four and eight are her favorites. Three and six are no good. " (Page 2)
    - - Opal the main character "the grandma", "“Nothing, Grandma,” Loother said.", Orvil, Loother and Lony is the boys Opal is taking care of, Ronald is the uncle she hates "Jacquie had always slept hard as night stays until morning comes. One night Ronald went over to the end of her bed—a mattress on the floor. Opal had the mattress across from her. When she saw Ronald pull at Jacquie’s ankles, she didn’t even have to think. She’d never swung the bat before, but she knew its weight and how to swing it. Ronald was on his knees about to pull Jacquie up to him. Opal got up as quiet as she could, breathed in slow, then raised the bat up high behind her. She came down as hard as she could on top of Ronald’s head. There was a deep, muffled crack, and Ronald landed on top of Jacquie—who woke up and saw her sister standing over them with the bat. They packed their duffel bags as fast as they could"(Page 5), Lucas is the love of her life that died "Lucas and Opal had been in love. Their love was young and desperate. But it was love. Then one day Lucas got on a bus and moved down to Los Angeles. He’d never even talked about it. He just left." (Page 4), " Then he died a few weeks later. Called Opal from his sister’s house to tell her his days were numbered. That’s how he put it. He didn’t even tell her why, he just said sorry, and that he wished her the very best. " (Page 4), Jacquie is Opal's sister.
    - - She lives with and takes care of Orvil, Loother, and Lony. Opal and jacquie used to live at Ronald's house until he started acting weird and they left. "Jacquie grabbed Opal’s hand and led her out of the house. Opal still had the bat in her hand." (Page 6) shortly after they left Ronald's house they went to a shelter. "After they left Ronald’s they went to a shelter their mom had always taken them to when they needed help or were between houses."(Page 6) Then after a while Jacquie left and Opal had no idea where she went and just continued with her life "A year later Jacquie was gone from Opal’s life. Opal didn’t know where. The last time she’d seen her, Jacquie was getting arrested for what reason Opal couldn’t tell. Losing Jacquie into the system was just another shitty loss among Opal’s many."
    - - She's native. She helped Lucas with the powwow dancing. "Opal helped Lucas prepare for his first powwow as a dancer." (Page 4)
- - - - Uncle(died of cancer), Norma(Dene's mom)