"What I'm saying is that we were all of us struggling to adjust to our new life, and I suppose we all did things back then we later regretted." (pg. 131)
Looking back, Kathy is able to sort out why she was so upset with Ruth. At the time, it was obviously a huge problem, and Kathy doesn't really say how the friendship was after that fight. The quote is a universal feeling. Anytime someone goes through a major change, he or she has to cope in some way. The event that comes to mind is the transition from grade school to high school. We were all accustomed to these small schools, and Roncalli is relatively large. A lot of people were like Ruth and had to show off to feel cool. Others were more like Kathy, and they just stuck to people they knew, and kind of branched out, but not really. Again, I'm struck by how average these characters are. They're clones, but in a way, they're just regular people. It's cruel that they're forced to be organ donors for non-clones. I'm hoping this plot somehow takes Kathy away from the prejudice and mistreatment that probably faces clones in the regular world.
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