A picture in a magazine: two teenage girls, long hair parted to the side and held in place with barrettes in the shape of bows, oven-mitted, dark-lipsticked, with dimpled smiles, holding out their pans of brownies toward two appreciative teenage boys in shirts and jackets and ties, hair slicked down with water, also smiling. Very polite, the four of them. The kids who’d posed for the shot must be dead by now.
