Neither my sister nor I would ever be part of the in-crowd at school, the clique of pretty and handsome young women and men who had no room in their lives for anyone like my sister and me. Eporner I had a year longer in school but I was also making plans for fleeing the nest, I dreamed of attending a big-name University somewhere in New England, any one of the several Ivy League schools established long before our country became a nation. Reluctantly I eased from the bed and as my weight came off it, Nadine shifted again, rolling to her back once more. Since we had moved my sister and I were forced by our isolation to become friends and allies. I stepped to the end of her bed for a better angle, hoping the blanket was loose enough that I could see the junction of her legs. I crept on bare feet over
