Pia lost her parents and baby brother to a house fire at age 4. Her grandmother died when she was 12 and Pia was sent to an orphanage. She met Portia there, but the older girl later moved to Maryland, leaving Pia in New York. Pia married young, not because she loved Arty, but because she was so alone. She continued to write to Portia, telling her about her abusive husband, but she never allowed Arty to know she had a friend. She runs away to Maryland...