"Dear Etta, It's been five years since we've last spoken. Sixty months. Two hundred forty weeks. About one thousand eight hundred days. Around forty three thousand two hundred hours or more. That's two million five hundred ninty two thousand minutes. One hundred fifty five million five hundred twenty thousand seconds approximately..." After five years William still doesn't want to leave Etta alone. (To the irritation of Jake.) Rather than respond she stuffs the letters in the bottom of her sock drawer.