" She was still wearing them when Myleigh met her, that summer she stayed with my folks after she graduated," Randy smiled. "They hit it off pretty we...l." We're moderately close friends," Nicole told them. "A couple different times she's commented that she'd like to meet you, both of you, in fact. I could call over and see if she's free." Actually, what we ought to do is take Crystal and Scooter over to see Carole and Wendy," Randy suggested. "Wendy doesn't get a lot of visitors, and she likes. There were actually several other conferences in other rooms at the hotel, all themed on women’s issues and all attended, from what I could tell, almost entirely by women. The sessions I attended were definitely serious, but I also perceived them as subterfuge. There was no need to bring us together for this. It could have been handled through electronic media. It seemed obviously to be a partial front for a gathering of UWA sisters, for purposes unknown to me. I didn’t see Kyra all day. She. "I sure hope our plan works. I think I'll be very very happy if things turn out the way we want them to.When Buck dropped Kathy off at her house that night, his parting words were "Good luck. It WILL work."It was about nine in the evening, the following Thursday, when the phone rang at the Phillips house and Maureen picked it up."Hello, Mrs. Phillips?" Yes, who is this?" This is Buck Tracey. Your daughter is in my class at school and has been babysitting for us?" Oh yes, Mr. Tracey, how can I. He had fallen and stuck his head hard against the corral fence. His skull was fractured on impact and he died later that night from internal bleeding in the brain. It was an ‘accident’, but she felt completely and entirely responsible. Although her parents didn’t make her feel guilty, she had loaded all of the guilt up upon herself as high as she could stack it. She threw away all of her dolls and toy horses and became ‘far too serious’, never laughing and never seemed to enjoy a single minute.