But she grew up in Canada, so it didn’t really count, did it? It was rumored that the girl who sang “Sunny Came Home” was born here, too. It’s a faint radiation out from the University of South Dakota, where a sign proudly proclaims that Tom Brokaw went there. And everyone lived in the country: Vermillion, South Dakota is a dusty town on a hill. Everyone could drive that summer before high school because of the state law that said if a kid lived in the country, they could get a permit to drive to school at the age of fifteen. Kids my age drove by in their parents’ rusty trucks and new tractors.
I rode my bike to Jenny’s house almost three miles away and across a busy road. a make-over and the two of us trying to learn the dance routine from Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion in her basement, where her father’s deer trophies watched us glass-eyed from the wood-paneled walls. and Jon from drama camp and community theater classes, and the parties I went to involved giving Jenny F. The only people I knew were librarians and my friends Jenny F., Jenny D. I had been homeschooled until high school. I did this in part because I was never invited to parties in gravel pits. So, I spent the entire summer between eighth grade and freshman year of high school looking for them. The only mystery was the mystery of Michelle and Suzie. Everyone had known one another since preschool, and most of them were related. I had lived in Texas for my whole life up to that point. They were high school juniors, and they left for a party at a gravel pit about 20 miles outside of town and never came back. Michelle Strand and Suzie Hewlitt of Vermillion, South Dakota went missing in May of 1971. The first and last crime I ever tried to solve was the disappearance of two teenage girls.
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