Each smiled as Catherine approached the table."Catherine Winters, is it really you?" smiled her long ago friend."It's Catherine Roberts now," smiled C...therine in reply showing the wedding banded hand. "And what about you?" Marriage? Not me. I'm having too much fun." Oh really," laughed the housewife.The two had met in college as freshmen and roomed together. Rhonda had always been the outgoing one with boys hanging around constantly. Catherine, on the other hand, was quiet, even shy. Many of. " There are colleges closer to where Lindsay lives, aren't there?" Keiraasked."None that do an archaeology course," Jodie sighed. "Though she'sprobably going to need to look for another new one now..." Yep," Danni said firmly. "I am going to do everything I can to makesure she NEVER sets foot in this college again." Oh- wait, no..." Ellie moaned as feelings of guilt welled up withinher. In her mind, she had already cost one of Janet's children theirchance at higher education, and if she did. “Thanks, Auntie. You know, sometimes I think I might try to buy the diner from Stan and Millie. I bet I could make a go of it.”“Now, that would be something to look forward to,” Flora agreed.“I’d just have to get the money together—and Stan would have to agree, of course.”“Do you think he would?” Flora asked, with her eyes wide.“Probably not right now, but soon, I’d bet. He and Millie will want to cash out soon enough.”Roxie stamped out her cigarette in the ashtray.“It’s something worth waiting. "Yes and I've seen how you all are working with them. I think it's goodthat you're focusing away from the tragedy." But I," began Bethany. "I don't feel the bond between us as strongly asit was. And I can't see forming that strong a bond with any that I'vebeen working with. I just want to help them learn it the right way, canyou understand?" she could tell the rest felt the same way.Taffy's death had severed the life bond when they'd been forced tocontinue on without her. And while they still.