When Dorothy closed up her cafe, I were sitting there eating a slice of her apple cranberry pineapple pie with a blob of vanilla ice cream on top; and I were drinking a cup of black coffee to wash it down with. Dorothy asked me to come home with her cause she were expecting her sister, Sarajean, to come back from going in to the Catholic Church. It warn't but a twenty minute drive, but Dorothy seemed to be a little concerned about that young girl. Well I reckon she ain't all that young anymore. She is ten year younger than Dorothy and when she left Harper and made her way to California to become a hippy, it not only upset Dorothy's family, but the whole community. Ever now and then we'd hear something about Sarajean but for all practical purposes she were dead to us. Then one day we heard she were getting married to one of them guys what run the cameras when they is making a movie. We seen her pictures from the wedding and then we didn't hear nothing until she come home all out of sorts to see her mama.
When she come home from church, she looked ten years younger than when she first come back to Harper. She were smiling real big and told us she were off on a new path.
Tomorrow: We Hear a Little of the Confession
Hollis' book read in 2010:
Heart of Darkness - Imperialism: The horror, the horror
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