What does Frannie say about their parents decision not to have an operation that might have made Sean hear and about what her mother sometimes does to Sean's ears?

Frannie says that the doctors had suggested an operation when Sean was little but that their mother had refused, saying that she wouldn't approve an experimental operation and that she wasn't going to change how Sean had "come into the world." Frannie wonders if Sean thinks about their decision. Their mother sometimes kisses both of Sean's ears.