Rushing outside, he walks to Chinatown, where he used to live as a young boy, back before he moved to the Bronx and before his mother abandoned him: Daniel Wilkinson, Ko reveals, is Deming Guo. When the duo-who call their band Psychic Hearts-finally gets onstage, Daniel forgets the songs and runs off during one of the first numbers. Ten years later, Daniel Wilkinson drinks at a loft party in Manhattan, preparing to perform on guitar with his high school friend, Roland Fuentes. Day after day, she doesn’t come home, and Deming starts to blame himself, thinking he must have driven her away by not wanting to move to Florida. That evening, she never returns from work.ĭeming senses that Leon and Vivian are unsettled by Polly’s sudden absence, but Leon tells him she’s visiting friends, though this seems unlikely. The next morning, Polly tells him they’re not moving. “Go fuck yourself,” he hears his mother hiss. That night, he tries to fall asleep next to Michael, but he hears Polly and Leon arguing on their bed across the room. Still, Polly tells him he has no say in the matter. This troubles him because he doesn’t want to leave his friend Michael, with whom he and Polly live, along with Vivian (Michael’s mother) and her brother Leon (Polly’s boyfriend). On their walk home, she informs him that they’ll be moving to Florida because she’s found a new job. The day before she disappears, Polly Guo picks up her son, Deming, from school in the Bronx.
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