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Tori wants to ease the situation for Mouse and asks her:

Tori: "Mary, you didn't do your letter yet…."
Mouse: "Oh….she died three years ago…"

Paulie and Tori are somehow shocked and say that they're sorry. Mouse says it's ok but she doesn't see the point of writing her mother a letter. Paulie says to Mouse that there still might be the chance her mother can hear her.

Mouse starts talking out loud what she would write to her mother:

"Dear mother,

remember you asked me, when you were sick, well… dying. It was fall, October. It was still hot that year, and your room, smelt like sweet, rotten apples…

I was holding your head in my arms, and your breathing was so fast, and like, shallow…and you said 'Mary…please, remember me.' The thing is, I do sometimes, forget what you looked like…"

Paulie is deeply impressed by Mouse's speech.

Paulie: "Brave. That's your new name. Mary B, B for Brave. Mouse is dead!"

Tori moves down the bed toward Mary.

Tori: " We're glad you're our new roommate, Mary. Aren't we, Paulie?"
Paulie: "Duh!! Are you glad to be our new roommate, Mary Brave? Come on. Truth be honest!"

Mouse smiles again.