Cold Sassy Tree Continuation Essay

             Loma stepped off the train and into the depot. She thought of the day she had in Athens and couldn't help but feel jealous of her friend who had everything whereas she had noting. She was about to find out she had less.
             She looked up to see half the town there waiting for her. She looked a little confused as she thought to herself, Did everyone wanna know how my trip went badly enough to come and greet me at the depot? But it wasn't smiling faces that greeted her.
             Then her father approached her with a grim look on his face, and she knew right then the town hadn't come to see how her trip went. Something aint right, she thought to herself. However, she didn't expect what she heard next.
             "Loma, I'm real sorry 'bout this, But Camp done gone and kilt hisself."
             She just looked at him like he was crazy. She couldn't believe the words that were coming out of his mouth. It just couldn't be true.
             "C'mon Loma, Will Tweedy will take you home in the artermobile, " he said putting his arm around her.
             She couldn't move she looked at her father again, and then looked at the people in the depot. Everyone looked at her like they were sorry for her. She quickly looked away from them, she couldn't stand all these people feeling pitying her. After seeing their faces it was finally starting to sink in that her husband was dead, and he was the one that took his life.
             She started to walk with her father and Will towards the car, she needed to get out of here and fast. She was feeling guilty about Camp's death and she didn't want to lose it in front of all these people.
             Why couldn't I have been nicer, she thought, I was just so mean to him, no wonder he went and killed himself, he was being put down all the time and it's all my fault. Even though she had married Camp just to make her father mad because he didn't want ...

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