Molly is the first person to notice when a girl on the other team begins to cry. Not sloppily, but a few tears and then more, until the other girls on that team circle around her and hide her from view. The girls of Mt. Adams know, at this moment, that something real and horrible and true has happened, something that cannot be changed or even understood, and the right fielder and left fielder grasp hands, and the left fielder holds hands with Simone who holds hands with Lisa, and on down the line, in a gesture that relieves the adults, so respectful and thoughtful, but the girls are doing it
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