Penelope

Words could not do justice to the heartbreak that Penelope had had to suffer. Two years earlier, she had been married, and she had been very young to be married, but she was very happy, and she was trying to get pregnant, and she had only begun trying to get pregnant when another car took her husband away from her forever. So young, so much time left to be married, and Penelope knew that it was the only true love she would ever know. So when her husband was cremated, and his ashes scattered, she began her life anew without the prospect of love. She later reflected that he would have wanted her to have other lovers. Her love could remain pure and true, though she was free to do as she pleased. Thus, Penelope had feelings for Ted, but only in the realm of the body. In her mind, her husband would always be there.
Still on the deck were Missy and Jeanne. Jeanne looking askance, not far from the manner in which Rory had just been looking. Missy, on the other hand, was intensely focused on the two guys standing in the corner. Jeanne was thinking about how she had, once again, stayed until the end of the party.
Number of parties that Jeanne had been to consecutively without meeting a single person she could relate to in the least: 11