Around 6 am the next morning, Ginny notices the sheriff's car and then Rose stumbling up the road, the only time she'd ever seen her flinch. She runs over to Rose's house, to the girls who are still asleep. She thinks to herself that the bar where Pete had been drinking in Mason City was 35 miles from the quarry. She allows the girls to sleep in and thinks repeatedly that time is getting shorter for them. She remembers that her own mother had died while she was at school. In part at least because neither Larry nor Harold are present, the church people manage a decent funeral, orchestrated for, perhaps,.....
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