Lizzie starts feeling inferior when she realizes a lot of the other kids around her have special talents and skills that they’ve developed, including Gordo with his filmmaking and Miranda with her violin. [When did that happen?–Ed.] She worries that she’s being left behind and imagines herself in the future working at a fast-food window while her old friends Gordo and Miranda have made successes of themselves and forgotten about her. Lizzie blames her parents at first for not making her pursue a special interest but Sam and Jo McGuire tell her that they’ve always supported her, whatever she did or didn’t do. Finally Lizzie puts a number of ””dream”” occupations in a hat and picks them out one at a time, with Miranda and Gordo on hand. While doing this, Lizzie has fantasies about what her future might be like. The final fantasy is about Lizzie as a stay-home mom, but her husband in it is not Ethan Craft–it’s Gordo! This jolts Lizzie back to reality, and she comes to feel OK about hersel