Ellen’s parents abandoned their vigil and went back to Spring Valley. All they could do in Binghamton was to wait for any kind of news, and they could do that at home. After they left, Robyn returned to campus and resumed her shattered life. She was trying hard to put all the pieces back together again, but she was losing the battle.
One evening, as she, Tom and George ate the bland institutional food in the cafeteria, Tom asked her if she could gather together her other two roommates, Caro