A Year Down Yonder

by Richard Peck

Afterward, out at the pump, Ina-Rae sidled up to me. “That was fun. Did you see Carleen’s face? I can keep the valentines, can’t I? You sure dreamed up some swell messages, Mary Alice. Especially R. McN.’s. They must have took you absolutely days to make.” “All in a good cause,” I said. Ina-Rae had played her role well too. I’d liked the tear in her eye.

LOL she’s so funny

He’d won a tuition scholarship to the U. of I. at Champaign.

UIUC mentioned rahhhh

“What would happen if I wrote to you from the U. of I.?” “I’d faint and fall over from surprise,” I said, though somehow his arm had found its way around my shoulder.