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MONDAY
It all started the way it all started. There was a tiny matter. And then it
exploded.
Fig had gotten an A on her Big Bang diorama, so even though her fifthgrade science unit had been vague on a lot of details, she knew enough to
know they were in really deep trouble.
Right before what happened happened, back when they were a hot, tiny
ball of dense singularity, Fig’s family was just a family. Maybe people
would guess that Fig and Jack left school in a limousine to eat lunch at a
fancy restaurant every day and rode horses in their backyard and lived in a
giant mansion, but really they went to school in a normal car and ate lunch
in the cafeteria and lived in a regular-sized house.
Fig had never ridden a horse.
Fig’s mother was famous, but she wasn’t horses-in-your-backyard
famous. And Fig and Jack didn’t go to summer camp. Fig’s therapist made
her keep a list of things that scared her, and it included roasting
marshmallows over a campfire, singing songs around a campfire, and
scooting close to a campfire to avoid mosquitoes. Since most camp
activities seemed to involve fire, Fig had nowhere to learn to ride a horse.
It was strange, given what had happened to them and given that they
were twins, that Jack didn’t mind fire. He also didn’t mind other things
people might not like about camp, like never taking a shower and whatever
bug juice was. But Fig knew Jack wasn’t sad about not going to camp and
staying home with her instead. She and her brother didn’t always like each
other, but they did always like to be together rather than apart.
Being apart was on both of their lists of scary things.
Scientists—or at least Fig’s science teacher—did not know what caused
the Big Bang, but they did know that billions of trillions of unlikely factors
had to be exactly right for it to occur. If it had been fall or winter or spring,
Fig and Jack would probably have been at school. If Fig hadn’t been afraid
of fire, they would probably have been at camp. If she didn’t have to share a
phone with her brother or even if it had been her turn or especially if Fig
had been a different kind of ten-year-old, she might not have been reading
the newspaper that morning. But none of those ifs came true. So conditions
were unlikely, but unfortunately perfect, for their entire lives to explode.
1998
Whereas for Fig’s mother it all began, quite a bit after the birth of the
universe, with Guys and Dolls.
India Allwood had been smart and well-read, even as a seven-year-old.
Skipping second grade was fine when everyone else was eight or nine, but
when middle school started she was only ten and a boy at her bus stop was
already shaving. At least, he said he was. At school, girls she had once been
friends with made fun of India’s teeth and boobs, some of which were too
prominent, others not prominent enough, and how she didn’t have a father
and her clothes and hair were both hopeless and her name was a country.
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