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"That makes sense e know"
"Yeah," I said "But God, where in New York? That’s the question"
"We’re ," he says "Some locational hint What’re the other dots?"
"There’s another in New York State, but not near the city I hkeepsie or Woodstock or the Catskill Park"
"Woodstock," Radar said "That’d be interesting She’s not much of a hippie, but she has that whole free-spirit vibe"
"I don’t know," I said "The last one is either Washington, DC, or else maybe Annapolis or Chesapeake Bay That one could be a bunch of things, actually"
"It’d be helpful if there was only one point on thefro her perpetual journey
I sat on the carpet for a while as Radar read to me more about New York, about the Catskill Mountains, about the nation’s capital, about the concert at Woodstock in 1969 Nothing see and found nothing
After I dropped Radar off that afternoon, I sat around the house reading "Song of Myself" and halfheartedly studying for finals
I had calc and Latin on Monday, probably nore thehout the day Sunday, but then a Margo idea popped intoOvid translations and logged onto IM I saw Lacey online I’d only just gotten her screen nah to IM her
QTHERESURRECTION: Hey, it’s Q
SACKCLOTHANDASHES: Hi!
QTHERESURRECTION: Did you ever think about how ?
SACKCLOTHANDASHES: Yeah, like leaving the letters in the alphabet soup before Mississippi and leading you to the minis you think up in ten minutes
SACKCLOTHANDASHES: Maybe the notebook
QTHERESURRECTION: Exactly
SACKCLOTHANDASHES: Yeah I was thinking about it today because I re the notebook into purses she liked, to make sure it fit
QTHERESURRECTION: I wish I had that notebook
SACKCLOTHANDASHES: Yeah, probably with her, though
QTHERESURRECTION: Yeah It wasn’t in her locker?
SACKCLOTHANDASHES: No, just textbooks, stacked neat like they alere
I studied at my desk and waited for other people to come online Ben did after a while, and I invited him into a chat roo--I was still sort of translating--until Radar logged in and joined the rooht
OMNICTIONARIAN96: Soo Roth Spiegelman today
ITWASAKIDNEYINFECTION: Can you tell where in New York City?
OMNICTIONARIAN96: Unfortunately, no
SACKCLOTHANDASHES: Also there are still some posters up in record stores there It was probably just so to find out about her
OMNICTIONARIAN96: Oh, right I forgot about that