The Day The World Came To Town by Jim Defede

Author:Jim Defede [Defede, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 2011-07-12T05:00:00+00:00

It was Wednesday night at the Lions Club and Lisa Cox was bored. Apart from watching the nonstop news coverage on television, there wasn’t a lot for the eighteen-year-old to do at night. Bruce MacLeod and Stan Nichol joked with her that once her mom went to bed, they would take her and her sister out barhopping around town. Lisa would brighten up and say, “Really.” And they would laugh and say, “Maybe.” But they were only teasing her, and so at night she just paced around the hall. She spent a lot of time helping parents care for some of the babies and young children at the Lions Club, a particularly poignant sight given everything Lisa had been through in the last two years with her cancer and the sad reality that she’d never be able to have children of her own.

Hans Larson, the president of the Lions Club, could see she was feeling a bit antsy. A big, lovable walrus of a man, Larson handed her the keys to his van and told her she could go out to the parking lot and listen to music. She was thrilled to be able to be by herself for a little while. Larson’s taste in music veered toward country. which wasn’t Lisa’s favorite, but she did find some old Eric Clapton tapes. She cranked up Larson’s stereo, closed her eyes, and imagined herself back home—even if it was just for an hour or so.

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