"...It's been thirty-four years since they were all together. Throughout Abigail's life she had kept in touch with her high school girlfriends, but they had never seemed to all be in the same place at the same time. Trudy was always off on research assignments in exotic places; Beth Ann was busy with her law practice; and, Mary (who they nicknamed Mogie in sophomore year, for a reason none of the girls could remember) had a full-time job raising a small tribe of offspring and another full-time job helping her husband with the family construction firm. Even after the businesses had prospered; the children were grown; and, careers where stable, they still found it difficult to coordinate time together. But, at last, it was going to happen, and Abigail was thrilled. She had spent the entire morning fussing with the place settings on the small antique garden table in the conservatory..."

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