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...Kimberly Rath failed until now to make that traditional truce with the self where you are resigned to cropping both your hopes and losses. Failure had brought pain--with acid bummers riding her mind, with a bad trip to California, with sanpaku and Harley, who cared--maybe in the wrong ways. Kimberly must have felt scared, and something in her fear drove her to the place of this old and settled...
...know nothing about the course of this affair--only that something in Kimberly Rath shattered when it ended. For she came back finally, to the house on Novak on December 6, 1973. And she asked her mother to take care of her for a while. She needed a rest she said, and then she would look for work again...
...Santa Claus outfit was robbed and beaten in the alley behind downtown Hudson's by a gang of four teenage boys. A fifty-year-old man crashed his car into the walls of the Windsor Tunnel, killing three people but not himself. And farther north on Novak Street, Kimberly Rath washed her hair and left on her long last walk...
Only two months have passed, but the Raths seem used to referring to their daughter in the past tense. The tone of Mr. Rath's speech is often retrospective, tinged by musing and tending toward generalization. Rose Rath seems more comfortable with the whys of her daughter's death. "Kim never did anything halfway," she says, "that's why she went wrong." Neither admits to blaming themselves; they seem to have tidied the matter in their minds, they seem almost disconnected from it. As perhaps they must if they are to live with...
...Novak St. sleds lie sprawled on condominium steps and a few snowmen deck the lawns. Sometimes the children point at the Rath place and whisper about her--while the adults are busy with the New Year. The Rath's new neighbor, Mary Beth Twyman, aged 19, was married two days ago Saturday in Holy Cross Chapel in a waltz-length white peau--de--soire dress and a crown of pink pearls, and as she drove off with her husband in his new model Camaro, a St. Christopher's charm dangled from the rear view mirror. December saw 25 houses finished...