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In August, Casey joins her family for Tina’s wedding rehearsal. She has had very limited contact with her family since Ella’s wedding, but she wants to be there for her sister. The Han family makes a great effort to be elegant and stylish as they prepare for the rehearsal dinner. Joseph is startled when Tina reveals that she is not going to specialize as a surgeon after all. Unu joins Casey’s family at the dinner and makes a good impression because of his connection to Ella and her father.

During the dinner, the two families exchange gifts as part of a traditional pre-wedding ritual. Chul’s family is much wealthier and better educated, but they have spent less money on the gifts they purchased: “[E]ither the Hans had overdone it, or the Baeks had done too little” (274). Casey feels embarrassed for her family.

Casey attends Tina’s wedding, where she happens upon Ted, catching him speaking lovingly to Delia on the phone. Casey is confused because when she had confronted Delia months earlier, Delia had explained that she and Ted had long since ended their relationship.

Later, Ted talks to Casey, telling her that Ella knows that he and Delia have reunited.