Noah also helps gather the groceries needed for the food that is being made for the reception and uses his wagon to transport flowers to the clubhouse. He is going to transport the wedding cake to the clubhouse as well, when Allen Diamondstein (Izzy's son and Nadia's father) slips on water and causes the cake to topple over. Allen, who is supposed to be his father's best man, must go to the emergency room (where he learns he has sprained his ankle). Noah offers to take his place and be the best man for the wedding.
At the reception, Noah must come up with prizes for the ink-stained invitations. He has no choice but "to give up things he loved." He only has four gifts, so he decides that the fifth gift is for one of the recipients to give his or her gift away to someone else. Soon, all of Noah's "gifts kept on giving." Noah discovers kindness in himself and in others.
Meanwhile, Nadia goes to Florida, with her dog Ginger, to visit her father, Allen Diamondstein, who is living in a "swinging-singles apartment complex." Nadia's parents recently divorced and Nadia moved to Epiphany, New York, with her mother. Nadia's relationship with her father is shaky, mainly because he doesn't know how to treat her. Allen hovers over Nadia, and she can't stand it. They spend time with her grandfather, Izzy Diamondstein, and his new wife, Margaret Draper. Izzy and Margaret walk the beach every morning and evening to rescue sea turtles and help them survive, and Allen and Nadia join them.
Nadia knows quite a bit about sea turtles because she wrote a paper about them for school. She resents the fact that her father asks Margaret questions about the sea turtles and not her. When Ethan, Mar-garet's grandson, shows up, Nadia feels more left out and refuses to walk the beach or visit her grandparents. Finally, Nadia and her father talk. Nadia is able to see that both she and her father have been going through difficult times and need to adjust to their new living arrangements (life without each other living under the same roof all the time). Nadia sees parallels between her life and the life of the sea turtles. She and her father agree to help and support each other and to "give each other a lift between switches."
