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No, according to Mrs Kellogg, Elizabeth was pushed down that elevator shaft--and no one’s going to tell her otherwise

Mr and Mrs Kellogg weren’t the only ones going through a hard tihter’s death, however After seeing what Rachel went through that week, I started to understand what Dr Jessup had meant About the flowers, I mean Rachel totally deserved so the college’s general stinginess--there’s been a hiring freeze since the nineties, which is lifted only for e Justine--I doubt a raise is forthco

So on Thursday, the day after the memorial service, I slip out to the deli around the corner, and instead of buying myself a pack of Starburst, an afternoon pick-me-up latte, and a lottery ticket, as is my daily ritual, pick up instead their best bouquet of roses, which I then put in a vase on Rachel’s desk

It’s actually scary how excited she gets when she walks in fro, and finds the--practically springing from her eyes

"Well," I say "Yes I feel bad about all you’ve been going through--"

The tears dry up pretty quick after that

"Oh, they’re from you," she says, in a different voice

"Uht the floere froyh if she had, I’m sure Sarah and I would have heard about it Rachel’s way serious about it--finding a guy to settle doith, I mean She fully stays on top of her weekly ets her roots done twice a ray really shows) And of course she exercises like a deton Square Park I guess four tio around like twelve tiet the sa around the park that she can fro shin splints and knee problems in later life But every time I mention this, she just looks at me

"It’s been hard on all of us, Heather" is what Rachel says now, slipping an arm around my shoulders "It hasn’t been easy for you, either Don’t deny it"

She’s right, but not for the reasons she thinks She thinks it’s been hard on runt work--you know, begging for boxes fro the the all of Rachel’s judicial hearings, dealing with the whiny student workers (who insist they should get bereaveh none of theiven them time off, they claim)

But to tell the truth, none of that had been as hard as ad to myself that Fischer Hall, which I’d co there, as one of the safest places in the world, is actually…not