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...beginning, nobody took the suicide pact seriously. Why should Steve and Angela and Frank and Elaine and Heather--all rational seniors--want to die? But there they were, lined up side by side on the Weeks Bridge in the March pre-dawn, staring into the Charles like derelicts trying to drown the pain of too many lonely nights. Elaine decided to jump first. She dived into the current, came bobbing up out of instinct, and waved to the four on the bridge. Her hair swirled around the Ophelia in denim as the eddies carried her out of sight...
Heather was next. She bit her nails and peeled the skin from her lips as she listened to the river beckoning her. She didn't want to jump, she had to jump, she shouldn't jump, she ought to jump: she couldn't make up her mind. Steve. Angela and Frank were all encouraging her, first with words, then with hands on her shoulder, finally with shoves. She started to kick and scream anything to avoid being thrown into the abyss...
...Bonnie Angela and Erik Amfitheatrot/London
...Belk burst into tears when she first saw the photograph of her blindfolded husband. A few days after the takeover, she picketed outside the South Carolina statehouse on behalf of the captives. Then Angela Belk withdrew from the public...
...talk to reporters. As the months passed, she became increasingly convinced that she would never see her husband alive again. At one point she asked State Department officials to stop phoning her because their news was never good. But as the negotiations took a promising turn in late fall, Angela Belk's spirits began to rise. She became actively involved in renovating the three-bedroom house that she and her husband own. She said last week: "I, too, feel that in some ways I have been a hostage...