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1、ContentsCoverPageTitlePageDedicationEditor'sPrefacePrologueBookOneChapterOneChapterTwoChapterThreeChapterFourChapterFiveChapterSixChapterSevenChapterEightChapterNineBookTwoChapterTenChapterElevenChapterTwelveChapterThirteenChapterFourteenChapterFifteenChapterSixteenBookThreeChapterSeventeenChap
2、terEighteenChapterNineteenChapterTwentyBookFourChapterTwenty-oneChapterTwenty-twoChapterTwenty-threeBookFiveChapterTwenty-fourChapterTwenty-fiveEpilogueAfterwordAbouttheAuthorAlsobyLaurieR.KingCopyrightPageTothe’06survivors,especiallyRobertJohnDicksonandFlorenceFrancesAdderley,“Dick”and“Flossie
3、—”mygrandparentsEditor'sPrefaceThisistheeighthchapterinthecontinuingmemoirsofMaryRussell,basedonasetofmanuscriptsIreceivedintheearly1990s.*Someofthemanuscriptswereneatlycollatedandtiedbyribbons;others,comprisingastheydidvariedsizesandqualitiesofpaper,requiredconsiderableworktodecipher.Stillothe
4、rsweremerefragmentsapparentlyunrelatedtolargerbodiesofthework,andthus,forlackofabetterapproach,arebestpublishedasshortstories.Thefollowingepisodeinthememoirslooked,atfirstglance,likeacollectionofthosefragments,butoncloserexaminationIrealizedthattheycombinedtwoseparatenarrativeswhichhadbeeneithe
5、rclumsilyfiledtogether,twentypageshereandfiftythere,orelseroughlyinterleaved,matchingupthechronologicalprogressofbothstorylines.OnedocumentwashandwritteninMissRussell'sdistinctivescript;theotherwasatypewritten,third-personnarrativefollowingtheactionsofherpartner/husband.Certaininstancesofgramma
6、randpunctuationwouldseemtoindicatethatthewriter(or,typist)wasRussellherself,butwhethersheistranscribingastorygivenher,orcreatingamoreorlessspeculativedocumentbasedonlearnedmaterial,isanyone'sguess.Personally,havinghadsometimetoconsiderthematter,Iventuretosaythatsheputtogetherthosechaptersofhers
7、torybasedonatleasttwoseparateaccounts,andfoundthattypingtheminsteadofusinghercustomaryhandwritingprovidedheranecessarypsychologicaldistancefromthetale,asdidtheshiftfromthepersonalvoicetooneofanobjectivenarrator.ButasIsay,it'sanyon