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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... tell that I am still special for her by the way she smiles at me and the lilt in her voice when she talks to me . I'm not out of the running yet . Does anyone know how I feel ? Even my preternaturally perceptive sister - in - law ? I ...
... tell myself that my husband is wrong when he says that he fools around because I'm not very good in bed . But I wonder often whether maybe he's right . Would I have been any better a lover with Leo ? Or with Packy ? If he had not been ...
... eyes out here but I don't dare weep and rage in public . I don't dare tell anyone , not even Maggie , that I feel like such a terrible failure because I could not keep my husband for myself . His fault maybe , Summer at the Lake 35.
... tell me I have ruined her life by embarrassing her . Again . She was such a cute little tyke . It was so hard to bring her into the world . Where did I go wrong with her ? Why does she hate me so much ? Will I take the pills tonight ? I ...
... tell me . The Rector re- fused . " A lot of young men are dying , " was his reply . “ We don't do any favors for young men merely because their family has money . " I received the letter from Mom two days later , the day before the ...
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 |