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Sunday morning, Juli wakes early after a restless night and finds her father heading out to visit Uncle David, whose 40th birthday is today. She insists on joining him, and Robert hesitantly agrees. At the Greenhaven facility, Juli meets her uncle for the very first time. Robert presents David with a 3,000-piece puzzle as a birthday gift, and David is overjoyed. The three of them then head out for ice cream.

Everything goes smoothly at the ice cream parlor—until David drops his cone and has a meltdown, crying and screaming on the floor. While Robert tries to calm him, Juli quickly retrieves a replacement cone, which solves the problem. After the visit, on their way home, her dad explains that David lived with him and Trina before they had children, but it proved too difficult to sustain. He admits he sometimes feels like a failure and wishes he could be more like Mr. Loski. But Juli tells him she’d never want to marry anyone like Rick Loski—she’d much rather marry someone like her own father.

When they return home, Trina tells them that Mrs. Loski has invited them all over for dinner this Friday night. But later that week, on Thursday, Juli overhears Bryce and Garrett in the library talking about her uncle. She listens as Garrett makes a cruel joke about David’s disability and Bryce does nothing to defend her. She can’t understand this level of cruelty, and in that moment, she decides she’s done with Bryce for good. She dreads dinner with his family the next evening and wonders if she can get out of it.