 After failing to acknowledge Corry's fourth birthday, Gail writes to Bryce scolding him for not writing his daughter on her birthday.After this, Gail begins to notice stranger things happening to Corry.Corry claims that her father has cut her hair, her butterfly-shaped birthmark disappears, she no longer has a shadow, loses the power of speech, loses weight, and forgets simple tasks such as counting or writing her name.