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Patty doesn’t sound as excited about it as I expect her to, though Oh, she says I can borrow her dress--the red Armani she’d worn to the Granant with Indy, and which I hope will consequently fit , "Ooooh he asked you out!"

Because I guess he hasn’t, really Maybe it isn’t a real date when the guy is just going out with you to et so mature?

"Well, just promise me to be careful, okay, Heather?" Patty still sounds worried "Cooper says he thinks the wholeis kind of…unlikely But I’m not so sure And I don’t want you to be next"

I do my best to reassure Patty that h, of course, I’m pretty sure the exact opposite is true Someone in Fischer Hall wantswith -and-Roberta-Pace-were- up with Patty that I feel so at her desk, stuffing Tootsie Rolls into little plastic bags as a surprise for each of the RAs, all of whom she feels need a pick-otten off to, given the dead girls and all

Only I can’t help noticing that Sarah has stopped stuffing, and is instead staring at lasses--she only wears her contacts on special occasions, such as check-in (potential to s at St Mark’s Church (potential to meet cute penniless poets)

"I didn’t mean to listen in on your conversation," Sarah says, "but did I just hear you say you think so to kill you?"

"Um," I say How can I put this so as not to cause her undue alarht, but Sarah has to live here How coerous psychopath stalking the floors of Fischer Hall?

Then again, Sarah lost her virginity on an Israeli kibbutz the summer of her freshman year--or so she’d toldand say, "Yes"

Then--because Rachel is upstairs in her aparted to find so to wear, but wouldn’t show it to us on account of "not wanting to ruin the surprise")--I tell her ton and the deaths of Elizabeth Kellogg and Roberta Pace

"Have you told any of this to Rachel?" Sarah asks h to worry about, don’t you think?" Besides--I don’t , it won’t look so good atthe son of the president of the college of a double homicide

"Good," Sarah says "Don’t Because has it occurred to you that this whole thing--you knoith your thinking that Elizabeth and Roberta were ht be abeen betrayed and abandoned by your mother?"

I just blink at her "What?"

"Well," Sarah says, pushing up her glasses "Your mother stole all your er That had to have been the --all your savings, as well as the people on who been absent -ter bad checks And yet whenever anyone brings it up, you dis"

"No, I don’t," I say Because I don’t Or at least, I don’t think I do