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The Fischer Hall residents, student govern tribute to Elizabeth Kellogg and Roberta Pace: We planted two trees--twin dogwoods--in a pretty section of the park, with a plaque under them that reads In Memory Of and lists their names, the dates of their births and deaths, and the words They Will Be Missed Millions of people will see it--both the plaque and the trees, which the guys from the horticulture depart--just as hundreds of students will benefit from the scholarship, also started by us, in Beth’s and Bobby’s names

I’m excited to see the trees in full bloo I have to look forward to these days, since I already found out--at last--what Cooper thinks about me

Not that he knows I know He probably has no idea I re out onto the penthouse terrace, just seconds after Mrs Allington knocked Rachel senseless with her Absolut bottle He’d gotten theover to the hall with Detective Canavan, only to learn fro into the penthouse on his monitor--that not only was Rachel alive, but that the two of us had apparently gone upstairs to pay a call on Mrs Allington (the filh for Pete to see that Rachel was actually holding a stun gun to , campus-wide)

While Detective Canavan dealt with the unconscious Rachel and wobbly Mrs Allington, Cooper knelt beside ht

I re was just so her head bashed in I’d been pretty sure, at the ti of the pepper spray inht be why I kept saying--the way I remember it--over and over, "Promise you’ll take care of Lucy When I’m dead, promise you’ll take care of Lucy"

Cooper had taken his leather jacket off--the one with my bloodstains all over it--and draped it over me It was still warm from his body I remember that And that it smelled like him

"Of course I will," Cooper had said toBut the para to be fine, I promise"

"No, I’ to die Later, the paramedic told me I was in shock, on account of the pain and the cold and the rain and all

But I’d had no way of knowing that at the tiht," I’d informed what I’d taken to be a hallucination of Cooper "A one-hit wonder That’s all I am Make sure that’s what they put on my headstone Here lies a one-hit wonder"

"Heather," Cooper had said He’d been s "You’re not going to die And you’re not a one-hit wonder"

"Oh, right" I’d started laughing Then I’d started to cry And I hadn’t been able to stop

It turns out this is a pretty coain, I hadn’t known that at the ti, bitterly "She’s right! I had it all, and I blew it I’est loser in the world"

That’s when Cooper forced me to sit up, took me into his arms, and said, very firmly, "Heather, you’re not a loser You’re one of the bravest people I’ve ever h what you have, ith your mother and iven up But you kept going You started over I’ve always ad"