he was W1mt's more he even had a few cars to rent So upon my request, he sent Ken B-enner, hrs chlef assrstant, out to the arrport to prck me up Ken sard hn f touch wxth most of hrs classmates, but that he drd know that Tom Gracey, jo he was out o D3DOWS1Q,Jel1'y Hoyle, and B1llWr1ght had started a Weldmg Shop rn Comstock Park After retummg Ken to the shop, I started on my own to what was then an rmknown destmatron So far, I have accounted for the whereabouts of thrrty four of my old clasmates That leaves twenty three more Well to contmue' After I left the Kar Shop, I drove down Monroe Avenue rn Grand Rap1ds The old town had surely changed Now I saw nrght clubs Then- gaudy lzghts highhghted the hornon wxth a th bxllboard of the Zomb1e Zoo was John Car-penter's band with I had known, I called and found translucent brxllrance Featured on e d Barron his top clarmet player, Gloria Fortuna, and hrs solorst, the new smgmg sensatron, Harry Bu Bob better lcnown as the Crooner In one of the store wmdows I saw, much to my amusement, ufa. tured by Jerry Flsh Bartl tt and John Basett demonstratrng Sleep Ease Sofas wh1ch are man c an e C Contmumg down Monroe, I was blocked by a transport truck leavmg jack Gravelyn truck depot. After a short delay, I turned off Monro ed out to be an accord1an school taught by Jackre e and started out inward Alpme Avenue Alpme I saw a cute httle shop whlch t1u'n Wrebenga I was gomg to stop, but the urge to contmue was growmg mslstently stronger I f Ford and roared down Alpme Ave I notxced some d On stepped down on the accelerator o my t d by farms along the srde of the road, and one had a srgn rn front statmg rt was owned and opera e Kr Rose Paul Roosmck Close by was a brllboard showmg three telephone operators, Betty emexs, Meyer, and Marcxa Seelman, advocatmg the use of new V1deophone' Desprte my queer urgency to contmue, I forced myself to stop at a popcorn house on Lamoreaux Drxve There I dlscovered two more of my lost classmates Yvonne Berry and Carol Nowack had 1 been an odd day My C'l.U.'10S1ty was almost satzsfled except for ten classmates So on the presumptron that these gzrls mrght lcnow, I Il mqurred as to the fate of the remammg few They sa1d they had heard via the grape vme that jack Scheffler was a Major m the Axrforce, and Eugene England was an Admlral m the Navy Claude Taylor and Ray Bacon were throwmg the1r lot together for humamty to erfect a rejuvmatmg p1ll to keep manland young and healthy Allan m attemptmg p d L Thompson were both expert well dnllers, and Kelth Kmney had worked hrmself Setterlund an ynn up to a parmershrp Ln Lamoreaux's Darry When some customers came m, I left and drove here to school Wrth a deep srgh I turned from the school, fee g a qu descnbe the lost, bewrldered feelmg that saturated my bemg I started down School Street, when suddenly I heard footsteps In the strll, qu1et dark they sonmded lrke the beat of a drum as closer d make out a shape, but the fog was drapmg It and dlstortmg the zmage In my terror I crled out, and, much to my relxef, when the person answered, rt was Ken Lzllre, who was head custodlan of Comstock Park School He sard that Helen Amold was ff e 1r1 of the school I sa1d a hurned good bye and contmued on St1ll there was thrs un o 1C g satlsfled feelmg rn me One was stlll unaccounted. I turned on to West Rxver Dnve when I for returmng I knew, because someone else lm eer emptmess mslde No words can and closer they came Now I coul suddenly remembered my car and lmew my purpose I was haunted We faced each other, nexther speakmg, but 1.n the look was complete rmderstandmg My make beheve szster and pal of hrgh school days, Keltha Cook, had been drawn back, too Now the cycle was complete ontmue mto the future, free of wonder and fear was standmg under the lxght, harmted the way We could c The Lost Wanderers 22 O. . . . . ,S . . . , n 0 I . gone into the popcorn business. This had certain y . ' ' . . . , . . . o I 9 . . . - . . ,, I, . . D
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