Pilgrimage
- Next stop: the women's prison to meet "the child who murdered her child" (3.31.1). The girl had killed her own daughter, biting her cheek before strangling her.
- Meridian is, as usual, trying to register the girl to vote. But the girl is so angry and beaten down that they leave unsuccessful.
- This experience truly shakes Meridian—it hits emotional nerves related to her own child. She writes two poems about the experience, and Truman feels a strange, "intensely maternal" feeling toward her (3.31.14).