Nevertheless, such markings upon rocks indicate a place of importance, a place of power, and a place of memory. It is like this with me and Ginny. Although she is long gone, and although I cannot comprehend the ending to her story, I return to it because it has power and must be remembered for that reason. Therefore, I have set it down as best I can, with the frail implements of paper and a typewriter, that it may preserve a fraction of Virginia Somerset’s memory, as I knew her in 1934.
