Meredith asked when Laurie showed up at her house the following Monday morning. Laurie nodded enthusiastically, her face fairly glowing. “Oh, jah. It was a lot of fun spending time on the beach. No wonder you stayed in Sarasota a whole summer when you were eighteen. I think I could live there, too.” “You’re nice and brown, so it looks like you got plenty of sun,” Meredith said, making no comment about the time she’d spent in Florida. Sometimes she wished she could return to those carefree teenage days, when all she had to worry about was being courteous to the customers at the restaurant where she’d worked and enjoying her free time at the beach. “I sure did get some sun.” Laurie held out her arms. “With my fair skin, I had to be careful not to burn, so I used plenty of sunscreen. It must have helped, because I look more tan than burned.” “What else did you do besides go to the beach?”
