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\f0\fs24 In a weekday kitchen morning anchored by Elikapeka's transplanted plumeria and her private longing for Oahu, Emma formally opens negotiations over her sixteenth birthday pool party\u8212?presenting a prepared guest list and requesting permission to invite boys\u8212?while Elikapeka deflects Emma's pointed accusation of prejudice with a measured non-promise to judge the boys' list on her own terms, overrules Emma's attempt to exclude the Hayes cousins under threat of canceling the party entirely, and closes the scene with a brief reassuring touch that Emma accepts without pulling away, leaving the boys' list unreviewed, Emma's specific concerns about her mother's biases unresolved, and Lizzie a silent witness throughout.
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