About Grace

Winkler takes the bus, with a cheesecake on his lap, to the apartment where Grace lives with her son. He sits on a swing in the park across the street and watches the apartment. He thinks of the other Graces as he works up the courage to go ring the doorbell. Eventually, he sets the cheesecake on the doorstep and walks away without pressing the doorbell.

Winkler lives with Naaliyah, sleeping on the couch in her small living room. He finds the place noisy because of the traffic noise and a strip mall going up across the street. He has a job at a Lens Crafters at the Fifth Avenue Mall. He got the job after going there to get new glasses and learned of an assistant lab tech position. He has gone to Grace’s apartment several times, each time with a pie, and each time he lost his courage and left the pie.

Winkler visits Sandy’s grave at the environmentally friendly cemetery where she was buried. The attendant gives him a brochure encouraging family members to plant a tree in their loved one’s grave. Winkler is pleased with the stone Herman chose for Sandy. In the taxi on the way home, he has a playful memory of her and thinks of how much he loved her and still loves her now.