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Quote #10
I was still so numb from the night before, I found it hard to even fathom the fact of it. Charlie—dead. The worst part was, I couldn't cry. As if I believed all the vowing and promising I'd done the night before never to care about Charlie Kahn again, I just couldn't cry. (5.11.53)
One of the worst memories of Vera's young life is finding out that Charlie is dead. It's hard for her to process the information for months and months following his death.