I don't know why Miss Lipshutz is so attracted to such a dangerous lifestyle, and why her parents can't see the path she is on. I don't know if this c...mmunity could have stood another tragedy, two years in a row, if Stanford and the others hadn't been so serendipitously present last Saturday night."It took me a moment to realize he was speaking of Tiny. Only school administrators would call him by his real first name.Dr. Osgood, gazing off into an alternate future, continued, "I don't know how. "I grinned and moved closer, "In your message you said you wanted to go into the forest with us."She looked up into my face, "I like being in the forest."I bent and caressed her cheek with mine, "We..."I spun at the alarm siren and looked at the Noss before I ran towards the roof intercom. I listened after calling the warren emergency dispatch and finally turned. I ran towards my gear, "Get everything into the vehicle!"We were tossing and throwing everything in. I was hoping we had time but we. I told her about Carl, Beth Ann, Colleen, Rebecca, Winnie, Sherry, Jennifer, Tammy, Catherine, Roberta, and Cindy. Rather than spend a year recounting it all, I shared bits about everything, including my time as David, Brian, Carl the second time through, John Gray, Kevin, and now Noah.When I got to the day Beth Ann was killed beside me in Branson, I found myself crying all over again, and Angela cried with me. "We were the happiest two people you've ever met, Angela. Beth Ann loved life and me. ”What she meant was that she’d wrap her arms around my neck and lay her head on my chest while I held her and we swayed to the music. Putting my arms around her, though, meant that I was holding her bare shoulder in my hand. It felt good. Really good.“This is nice, Cassie. I don’t think we ever got this close since second grade,” I said.“I used to hold your hand when we walked in the woods,” she said. “Did I really hurt you, Ari? I cried when I read the scene in the woods.”“Oh, god, Cassie!.