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Breath, Eyes, Memory Book 2, Chapter 11

Book 2, Chapter 11

Sophie goes to hear Joseph play when he returns to Brooklyn. But he's going away again, to Florida. He gives Sophie a silver ring.
When he returns, but before leaving for Providence, he asks her to marry him. Sophie waffles in her answer.
She tells her mother that Henry Napoleon isn't going to work out. She seems suspicious.
And then, Sophie gets caught. She stays out too late one night with Joseph, and comes home to find her mother waiting for her.
Then, Martine decides to perform a virginity test on Sophie. She's distressed, to say the least. Her mother tells her the story of the Marassas, divine, twinned souls who were lovers.
Martine uses the story to springboard into a discussion about finding true love, a person who is closer than your marassa. But even then, love between mother and daughter is deeper.
She tells Sophie that she knows all her secrets—including her love for Joseph—and warns her not to give up a lifetime with her mother by going off with him.
Sophie is traumatized by the "test" and can think only of her Tante Atie screaming when her mother did the same thing to her.

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