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An image comes to Lacy unbidden. It is the night she
wanted to go to the open mic at Tenuto’s. She is standing
in the kitchen, arguing with Olivia.
LACY: We had a fight that night . . . didn’t we, Liv? Mom
texted you and said you had to drive me to school and you
got mad.
The image of the two of them in the kitchen becomes
fuzzy. Lacy tries to grab the memory, but it disappears.
LACY: No . . . that can’t be right . . . I wasn’t going to school
that night.
Lacy is sure that if Olivia stays, more of her own mem-
ory will come back, but Olivia walks to the gate.
LACY: Liv . . .
Lacy doesn’t move, but her soul reaches out with such
longing, Lacy feels as if something inside her is going
to break.
Sam is about to whisper Lacy’s name, when Billy rises
from his grave. Billy looks to see if Mrs. Steele is up and
sees Sam peering out. Quickly Billy jumps out of his grave
and goes to Lacy before Sam moves. Ashamed, Sam ducks
underground.
BILLY: Are you all right?
LACY: You shouldn’t be out.
BILLY: I heard you. What can I do?
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