The Last First Day
“Or sometimes she said: Oh, we were set up on a date.
Neither of these statements, she thought, was actually a lie.
In the winter of 1957, by then a senior at Smith, Ruth celebrated her twenty-second birthday. She had a group of friends and plans to go to New York after graduation, where she hoped to find a job in publishing. She’d majored in English. She thought herself a pretty good writer.
One Saturday afternoon that December, someone knocked on Ruth’s door in Talbot House. Ruth looked up fro...m her book.
Sally Carlisle, who lived down the hall from Ruth, stuck her head around the doorframe.
Did Ruth want to come along that night on a double date? she asked.
Two Harvard boys, one of them an old chum of Sally’s from back home, were on their way, driving over from Cambridge. Sally had told them she’d find another girl to go along to a party.
Ruth looked out the window. The air was smoky, full of fluffy clumps of snowflakes. She thought about Peter at Harvard, of course. But he would never come over to Northampton on a blind date, she thought.MoreLess
Neither of these statements, she thought, was actually a lie.
In the winter of 1957, by then a senior at Smith, Ruth celebrated her twenty-second birthday. She had a group of friends and plans to go to New York after graduation, where she hoped to find a job in publishing. She’d majored in English. She thought herself a pretty good writer.
One Saturday afternoon that December, someone knocked on Ruth’s door in Talbot House. Ruth looked up fro...m her book.
Sally Carlisle, who lived down the hall from Ruth, stuck her head around the doorframe.
Did Ruth want to come along that night on a double date? she asked.
Two Harvard boys, one of them an old chum of Sally’s from back home, were on their way, driving over from Cambridge. Sally had told them she’d find another girl to go along to a party.
Ruth looked out the window. The air was smoky, full of fluffy clumps of snowflakes. She thought about Peter at Harvard, of course. But he would never come over to Northampton on a blind date, she thought.MoreLess
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