Polly has certainly built a new life, but the remnants of her past continue to haunt her. Although she has succeeded in fashioning a new identity for herself, all it takes is one phone call from Deming to completely unravel her, forcing her to think about how hard it would be to marry her two lives. The fact that she has such a hard time reconciling her separate existences with one another is an indication that although it’s possible for a person to be many things at once, it’s not necessarily possible to sequester certain aspects of one’s life. Rather, the elements of identity and personal history are interlaced with one another, no matter how disparate they might seem.