The fact thatI replaced her on the cheerleading squad last fall after she broke her legdidn't help our relationship. But in recent weeks, she had draw... closer tome, and I sensed she was sorry for her meanness. She was enrolled atKansas State in the fall and in the last conversation she and Claire everhad, she made me promise to write to her every week.I asked her what her major would be, and she laughed and said, "Oh, Idon't know. If I go for any career, I'm sure it will be teaching. But. The thought had obsessed him for all the years of his childhood. Through long, hard winters of being a misfit, of taunting and torture by playmates and acquaintances. Through endless years of being misunderstood by adults and forced to live by rules that made no sense to him.He grew up and the dreams faded. College, a job, getting married, a home and a mortgage... The adult world had no place for those who were truly different, perhaps not even quite human. He had gotten very adept at mimicking. We were issued with thick brown overalls, sturdy boots with steel toecaps, wide leather belts and hard hats, being given lockers for our own outer clothes and other belongings. The smokers amongst us were told in no uncertain terms to leave all matches, lighters and smoking material in the lockers, and we were reminded that we would be patted down for contraband. One of my mates had brought along his Kodak Instamatic with a flash cube – that went straight into the locker, containing as it did a. But, then, Cole Granger stepped out of his store in an effort to protect his prized display window--4 feet by 6 feet of glass in one panel. A very foolish Indian aimed an arrow at Granger and struck him in the chest.Granger went down, as good as dead, if not dead already, and this turned the morning's fun into a deadly serious fight. Many of the townspeople had been watching and enjoying the spectacle, but, were shocked into reacting to defend the town. Virtually every man in town was now down.