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Lara Jean meets with Janette, her future overseer at Belleview. She tells Janette an idea that she has for a scrapbooking activity with the Belleview residents and suggests that the retirement home’s organized cocktail parties be less frequent and more elegant. Janette agrees with these initiatives, provided that Lara Jean takes complete charge of them.
Chris comes over that night to give Lara Jean an elaborate manicure. She counsels Lara Jean to get over her shame about the hot tub video, assuring her that there will be a new school scandal in a week or so.
Lara Jean visits with Stormy, a patient at the nursing home. Stormy is feisty and flamboyant and has been married four times. As the two of them work on Stormy’s scrapbook, Lara Jean confides in Stormy about the hot tub video. Stormy tells her that only boring girls have no scandals, and Lara Jean should enjoy life and have several boyfriends at once while she is young. She also offers to set Lara Jean up with her grandson.
Lara Jean works on scrapbooks with Stormy and two other patients: a Japanese woman named Alicia and a man named Mr. Morales, whom Lara Jean suspects of having crushes on both women.
By Jenny Han