Everyone dates the demise of our neighbourhood from the suicides of the Lisbon girls. People saw their clairvoyance in the wiped-out elms, the harsh sunlight and the continuing decline of our auto industry.
Even then, as teenagers,we tried to put the pieces together. We still can't. Now whenever we run into each other at lunches or parties we find ourselves going over the evidence one more time.
All to understand those five girls, who, after all these years, we can't get out of our minds.
Even then, as teenagers,we tried to put the pieces together. We still can't. Now whenever we run into each other at lunches or parties we find ourselves going over the evidence one more time.
All to understand those five girls, who, after all these years, we can't get out of our minds.
Cecilia, the youngest, was 13
And Lux was 14.
Bonnie was 15.
Mary was 16.
No one could understand how Mrs Lisbon and Mr Lisbon, our math teacher,had produced such beautiful creatures.
Sofia made such a perfection adapting this book to a film. I've read it and it's amazing.
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