All Roads Lead Home (Bellingwood) - Plot & Excerpts
"You're going to let me get away with not telling you what happened?" she asked. None of them said a word; they kept moving items around and talking about the pieces they were seeing. Beryl was shooting a picture of a Mickey Mouse Pez dispenser while Sylvie waited to bring it to Polly for input, Lydia was looking at a little pink sweater and Andy was putting away a Newsweek magazine from 1984 which had already been photographed and inventoried. She pulled out a can of hairspray and giggled, "Some little girl didn't have a chance to put her hair back together that day." Lydia looked up, "You know, there is nothing worth anything in these crates. It's as if the thief deliberately took things that weren't terribly important. That's probably why he or she was able to get away with it. No one paid much attention to what they lost." Sylvie responded, "And if it was something bigger, we assumed a classmate had taken it. I was annoyed when my jacket was gone, but I couldn't prove anything, so I moved on." Polly stood up, "Alright.
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