Her brother comes back to Telluride after hearing this to visit her and make sure she is all right. When Sonny gets there he examines her condition and the condition of the house: "According to him, both I and the cabin looked like five miles of bad road"(77). Through her brother you get to see that she is not doing well at all. .
Once Sonny gets settled in, they get up to date with each other. It turns out that the two are in similar situations. Sonny's wife left him six months before, so they both feed off each other for support using alcohol as another ingredient. The next day after observing the kitchen, Sonny decides to fix the rotting counters and cabinets. Sonny is a carpenter, which fit his personality perfect. He was a big guy, scruffy in appearance, and really hard headed. The narrator reveals, " my brother was the one to truly protect me. It was he who"d armed me, once upon a time, with a hammer, and this visit, while on the surface a friendly checkup, perhaps a kitchen reclamation, had me as its real rehab job"(78). .
The narrator describes her boyfriend as a "trust funder" who seems to be effortlessly living his life. She explains that he is a wealthy man that performed arson for people as his main profession, accepting drugs as compensation. When Telluride became a hot spot for wealthy newcomers all of the deemed historic structures were getting in the way of the businessmen. The narrator describes the situation saying, "the arsonist was a necessary evil; he"d shown up on the same ship with the real estate agents and the developers, a stowaway like a disease or non-indigenous life-form, set to thrive where it lands"(82).
She was happy with him and thought things were going great until one day from nowhere he broke their relationship off. He tells her that the fun isn't there anymore, and then asks her if she is going to turn him into the police. He leaves her heartbroken and alone.
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Perchance it never departs from one's essence, but is simply veiled because of a fresh hero that comes to one's heart to distract the effects of lonliness untill that attatchment runs dry, or maybe loneliness is simply a state of mind that comes and goes as it pleases in this emotionally dented world in which we exist, but never actually clings. ... There is never a lonliness with a child and parent because that special bond will not fade. ...