Grave Sight
“Mary Nell’s sad, tearful face had already attracted some attention from the sparse clientele. Her coloring cleared up and her demeanor brightened as she talked about happier topics, addressing her conversation almost exclusively to my brother. Tolliver found out that Nell planned to go to the University of Arkansas the next year, that she wanted to be a physical therapist so she could help people, that she was a cheerleader and didn’t like algebra. Her cheerleading sponsor was totally cool.I wa...s free to think my own thoughts. Mary Nell didn’t seem much different from any of the girls I’d known in high school, the girls with sober parents, the girls who had enough money to ward off worry and homelessness. She was bright but not brilliant, virginal but not saintly. The loss of her sibling had left her drifting, searching for a new identity when her old one had been shaken at its core. I could see the knowledge of her brother’s secret life with Teenie had disturbed Mary Nell deeply, until that shock had been smothered by the greater trauma of Dell’s death.MoreLess
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