...I wanted to hold Ib's hand forever. She was the first friend I ever met. But Garry, Garry thought I was a bad girl, and he was going to make sure she could never play with me again. I just wanted to play, that's all...I wanted to play games with my friend, is that so bad? I didn't mean to scare her, really, I just thought she'd leave, that's all, so maybe I wasn't playing very nicely, and...and maybe that's why she ran away. I thought, if I found her again, if Garry was gone, we'd be friends again, and there wouldn't be any reason for her to be afraid. I was going to prove it, you know, that I really, really just loved her so much.

[Mary's hands grasp at her face, shaking, clutching. She shakes her head.]

But she burned me all up. She set me on fire and it hurt so bad, and then I was nothing at all. I must be such an awful, horrible, terrible girl.