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That August night, we found ourselves in the usual place, amid familiar company. As the summer of 1984 drew to a close, Ike and I sat sipping Michelobs, watching cable T.V., critiquing videos, and reminiscing in Rich's basement. Rich, Neil and Mike were also there, of course. Everything was as it always had been...
...year earlier, before we went away to college for the first time, we had gone out for a final celebration. That evening ended with the Rocky Horror Picture Show and a slightly buzzed Ike behind the wheel of his parents' Plymouth Volare (He had cracked up his own GTO a few months earlier. Miraculously, he had escaped injury, unless you count his father's wrath...
...Ike always had been a little reckless. He was an exceptionally smart kid, but he took few things seriously. He was in rare form the day we took the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The Proctor gave us a five-minute break between sections, but Ike stayed in the hall for 15 minutes. He took the test again and managed to impress the admissions people at Rice...
...year at college saw a startling metamorphosis. Ike spoke enthusiastically about his politics courses, and a disciplined exercise regimen had added a good 30 pounds of muscle to his slight frame. He looked healthy. He seemed happy. He spent much of last summer doing what he enjoyed most satling on his family's boat...
...after 1:00 a.m. when the telephone shook Ike's father from a sound sleep that September morning. The anonymous voice of a Texas state trooper came over the line through 2000 miles of static...