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Suzi smiled broadly

"Still, ere both twenty-two, Monte and I, single and pretty and living away froet a date with anyone who used vohen they spoke besides eh! There was a sexual revolution going on out there and ereout It didn’t bother me so much I was excited to be a part of it all, the Seven, the resurgence of the town Monte--at the end of the school year, she moved to Mankato"

"Did you keep in touch?"

"Not at first," Suzi said "I heard she got married, had a child--heard that her husband was killed in Vietnaain until a few years later and I saw her na a seminar at a teacher’s conference She had kept herfor a married woman to do in those days, but she was always a bit of a feminist I saw her name and looked her up and we’ve been fairly close ever since"

"What about the other teachers that were here back then?"

"Gone Some died Some moved away There weren’t that many of us As far as I know I’"

"Maybe you can answer some questions for me"

"About the Seven?" Suzi asked

"Yes, but h the yearbook, found a page and turned the book for e It was the same shot that appeared in the newspaper, only in color There was a black border around the photograph and beneath it Elizabeth’s naives us all love But someone to love he only lends us

"Beth," Suzi said "She hat they used to call ‘a dish’ "

I hadn’t thought much about her when I first saw Elizabeth’s faded black-and-white photograph in the newspaper Just a pretty girl now gone It was only her death that had held interest for ed Elizabeth’s face was sold that only nature could create, and her eyes--had they really been that brown, or was itof ink?