Goodbye Earl(89)
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Ada,
I love you so much. I’m here and here anytime if you want to talk about this more. Understood if you don’t. (But seriously call me call me call me soon.)
Okay…if you want a distraction, we can talk about how Leo casually mentioned that he and Annie were talking about getting engaged after they finish school which is equal parts way too much planning ahead and way too fast in my opinion even though it’s not fast at all?? Yeah…I have a LOT of feelings about that. Some of which I can attempt (???) to distill. Do I want him to be my boyfriend or my best friend forever, why have I never known this? Am I jealous of Annie? YES. Will I always be? I DON’T KNOW!
Also, I can’t stand the fact that you and Caro aren’t speaking so FIX THAT IMMEDIATELY OR I’M FLYING HOME IN THE MORNING. I could probably talk Kasey into THAT. Or call me on three-way so I can talk you through this? Please! (Remember we used to switch off and do that in middle school whenever we had fights? Whenever two of us are fighting, we have to figure it out together! Nothing’s changed!)
RF.
Roses
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Ada, I love you too. I believe in you and trust you to do exactly what you need to do. You’ve made like, the most consistent, best decisions of anyone I’ve ever known. And same re: being here if you want to talk about it.
Or! For my distraction, I can tell you about the terrible date I went on last night and how he ignored me for the second half of it because his friend showed up and they zoned out playing Call of Duty. He forgot I was there!!! I give up.
Roses, you and Leo are obsessed with each other and always will be. It’s a lot for anyone to handle so yeah!! Buckle up, Annie!!
Also, MAKE UP YOU TWO. I cannot come back to Goldie right now or anytime soon to fix this. I NEED MORE TIME.
I LOVE YOU. RACK FOREVER.
Kase
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Ada, OH MY GOD. Well now I’m only mad that you didn’t tell me this so I could cook and bake for you while you were at the lake house. What in the world did you eat? I love you so much and we’ll talk about everything in like a minute, because I’m coming straight to your house after I stop at the bakery for a pie.
TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE SO SOON, GIRLS. Rosemarie, your Leo…and Kasey, your bad dates!! Ahh!!
LOVE AND RACK FOREVER.
Caro
Act III
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.
—William Shakespeare
2019
41
Cressida Bell
Officer Duncan: Mrs. Bell, why have you decided to come down to the station today?
Cressida Bell: Because I know y’all are trying to figure out what happened to that Foxberry boy. My son, Leo, was in the same graduating class. Is this a murder investigation?
OD: It’s simply a death investigation at this time.
CB: Okay, well I was curious because if it becomes a murder investigation, I think it’s best that y’all know Trey Foxberry could be a horrible person who said horrible things. I’m praying for his mother, I really am, but that boy had the devil in him when he wanted to.
OD: Could you elaborate for me?
CB: Once, when he was in high school, he and some of his friends were walking past when I was locking up the church for the night. Trey asked me if…
OD: Asked you if…
CB: He asked if me and my husband…ever had sex in the church. There’s a couch in the lobby outside the sanctuary…and he asked if we’d ever…done it…there. But that’s not exactly what he said.
OD: What did he say, exactly?
CB: He said…“Do you and Reverend Bell…f-u-c-k on the couch after service?”
OD: Well, that’s an awful, inappropriate thing for someone to say to you, Mrs. Bell, I agree.
CB: Let me tell you the worst part.
OD: Go ahead.
CB: His daddy heard him and didn’t say a word! I looked up and saw him. He didn’t correct the boys at all. He was sitting in his truck, watching it happen. I couldn’t believe it. That family gets away with everything big and small, and maybe if it was someone else, you could chalk it up to him being young and stupid, because Officer Duncan, I raised a teenage boy, so trust me—I know what they can be like. But Trey Foxberry has never been held accountable for anything in his life and neither has his daddy. Same probably goes for his grandfather too, if you ask around enough. I wish my mama was still on this earth to tell me some stories because she lived in Goldie her whole life and she used to go to school with Trey’s granddaddy. So, can you take my statement and keep it in a file somewhere in case anything comes up? Again, I’m sorry he’s dead. I don’t wish that on a mother, ever. I have the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit won’t allow me in good conscience to wish that on anyone. But if somebody did hurt Trey Foxberry, maybe it was because no one had ever told him no, not once in his life. He thought he could do and say anything. And what he did to his poor wife— OD: What he allegedly did.