Summer at the LakeFor childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends. |
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... didn't say no , but like a fool I didn't say yes either . I talked about a lot of foolish objec- tions and problems with our families of which I didn't even realize I was aware . Then on the day of my twentieth birth- day I betrayed him ...
... didn't harass us and we didn't harass him . Not much anyway . He could have been no more than thirty at the time . " It was the old Lasalle , huh ? Leo ? " " Yeah . He wasn't supposed to take it , he wasn't sup- posed to drive it that ...
... didn't bother to argue , as I usually did when priests tried to explain this to me , that the Church had done a bad job explaining its new approach to divorce to the laity . " And there's no question , " Packy continued , “ that Phil ...
... didn't argue . I had always thought myself that in part Jane's radiance was a cover - up . But she certainly wasn't the kind who might kill herself . Moreover I had already con- tended with one troubled woman whom I had desperately ...
... didn't make the mistakes . ' " The hell you didn't . ” " And I'm not afraid of making them again . " " The hell you're not . " " If you weren't , " Maggie intoned the words of solemn judgment , " you would be with her now and not with ...
Contents
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31 | |
St Johns Night | 61 |
The Thirties | 95 |
The 1940s | 111 |
Fourth of July | 145 |
1968 | 291 |
1978 | 299 |
1947 | 307 |
1978 | 321 |
1977 | 327 |
1978 | 333 |
Marys Day in Harvest Time | 337 |
1948 | 339 |
1978 | 147 |
1967 | 197 |
1978 | 209 |
1946 | 217 |
1978 | 243 |
Labor Day | 409 |
The Feast of St Michael Gabriel Raphael and all the other Angels | 461 |
Authors Note | 467 |