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Knowledge is finite, wonder is infinite.

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Jasmine said, "I was twenty-one, and Jerome Wager walked into the gallery and before his meeting with my boss he wanted a glass of water." She explained that she'd felt herself to be a child, she was a child, she was naïve, so young. And Jerome, aged thirty-six, had been a full-fledged adult. Having married Jerome when he was thirty-nine, I (Bodie) can attest that he was still in most ways a child, …

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"In 1995, Thalia Keith died on the campus of the Granby School in Granby, New Hampshire."
"Her body was found in the campus pool on the afternoon of Satur-day, March fourth. Although the cause of death was drowning, Thalia also had open fracture wounds to the back of her skull plus bruising on her neck and damage to her carotid artery and thyroid cartilage, as if she'd been choked.

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We thought we knew, so we became certain we knew. It became as real to us as those lightning bugs, their mating dance at the tree line, our laughter, …

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"Is it unsolved?" Oliver was asking.
"No, Fran said, "they caught the guy right away. Omar Evans, this athletic trainer. He worked in the weight room, and he was the guy who'd tape your ankle if you twisted it. He'd been kind of stalking her.
Or they'd been dating. Or both."
"She was not dating him," I said.
"True," she said. "She was too busy. She was hanging around Mr.
Bloch all the time."

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Oliver Coleman said, "Wait, was this the swimming pool thing? The one— when I googled Granby after they invited me, I saw there was a whole Dateline."
I (Bodie Kane) said, "That's the one."

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What if, a year from now, Dorian Culler ran for office? Would I feel obliged to come forward? Would I need, for my own conscience, to say something, even if no one listened?

The short version of the truth, the version I give every new therapist in the first five minutes, then wait to see which bait she takes:

When I was eight, my brother, who was fifteen, accidentally killed my father by pushing him off a porch with a spatula.