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...story reads so far of someone playing craps with the future. "I never knew what she wanted," Harley says, "maybe something she saw in the movies or something those fanatical parents of hers taught her to expect." Kimberly Rath, once safe and cramped in Troy, had left for a world less sure and then a world less real. Her story reads of reckless withdrawal and then of getting into the withdrawal. Memory is short in Dentroit, but Kimberly Rath seemed unable to forgive or forget whatever past she'd lodged within. Rose Rath's life promise held no promise...
...some point that spring the devil in Kimberly Rath's high began to bother her. The highs were black most often. And she latched on to another dream that spring, this one of the Natural Life, of life on a farm with time and fresh air and smal pleasures. She talked, tiresomely so, Harley says, of the "simple things, man, the simple things, you've just got to cut out all the crap, man, get down to where your soul...
...system what seemed a salve to her pain. For someone whose trips had turned into nightmares could not be threatened by a philosophy that placed the source of health, not in the inner self, but in "the absolute justice and infinite wisdom and Order of the Universe." Kimberly Rath, sold on this surefire system for spiritual peace, donned it like a straightjacket upon her life...
...Kimberly Rath stayed in Ann Arbor and adopted another life and style. And this one not too different from the one she had fled in Troy two and a half years before...
This much is gleaned from heresay, for the manager has disappeared and the help has been overhauled. In a place as ragged and permissive as Ann Arbor the affair was not one to attract notice, and no one knows who might have known Kimberly Rath in these last months. It is difficult to picture Kimberly, the daredevil mischief maker, the enthusaiast and extremist, the wild child living high and happy with a madness holed up in this middle-aged hideaway. Perhaps she needs this, a steady straight place, that could impose a predictable order on her days and restore...