Run

Tip and Kenya wait for a cab near the Doyles’ house, but it does not arrive. Tip decides that they should walk to the Back Bay station and take the T into Harvard. On the walk, Kenya marvels at the beauty of Dartmouth Street, while Tip grumbles about gentrification. Pain from his fractured ankle distracts him on their walk and he becomes hypothermic. Using skills learned in Girl Scouts, Kenya warms him when then reach Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, which houses Tip’s lab. Kenya helps him to re-shelve some fish specimens and asks Tip about one of them; this warms his heart because Teddy, who often comes to the MCZ, never asks about his work. He tells her the last time someone discovered a new fish: “Last week, the week before” (230). They plan to visit Walden Pond together in the spring. Tip’s Montessori school science teachers, a history teacher, and an English teacher all brought him on field trips there as a child, yet Kenya will soon graduate elementary school and has never been.  

The pair call the hospital to check on Tennessee. When a nurse tells them that Tennessee is still in surgery, Tip brings Kenya to Harvard’s indoor track for a run.