““MOLLY’S OWN CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ARE SCANT AND PARTIAL. SHE remembers that the TV in the living room seemed to be on all the time and that the trailer smelled of cigarette smoke and the cat’s litterbox and mildew. She remembers her mother lying on the couch chain-smoking with the shades drawn before she left for her job at the Mini-Mart. She remembers foraging for food—cold hot dogs and toast—when her mother wasn’t home, and sometimes when she was. She remembers the giant puddle of melting snow just outside the door of the trailer, so large that she had to jump across it from the top step to get to dry ground.””
![“If she had only known, things might have been different between us, but I could never talk to her about it" [Jimmy about Molly]” quote by Ian Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/365/ian-cross-17679_quote_if-she-had-only-known-things-might-have_1553749.jpg)
