Edith, Glenda and I decided to spend Spring Break '95 in the Washington D.C. metro area. The parents of Glenda's boyfriend then had offered to host us. We also invited our 2 new friends from the class above us, seniors Toby and Jessica, to come along for the ride. Toby and I share the same birthday. I was turning 19 that week and Toby was turning 22. So we packed our bags, rented a van, and excitedly left Mount Holyoke for the nation's capital.
The nation's capital did not disappoint. We loved the Smithsonian. The Holocaust Museum moved us. We also went to Mount Vernon and Colonial Williamsburg. Edith also wanted to visit her friend who was then studying at the College of William and Mary.
I met up with Edith and Glenda in New York last December. Edith has been living in Ecuador. Her husband works at the Guayaquil U.S. consular office. She was just back in town to deliver her 2nd child. Edith mentioned then that her friend that we visited that Spring Break has been murdered. It was so sad to hear of a promising life so quickly extinguished. I remember him as being very smart and very committed to public service. Edith just sent me this link that a year since the murder, the case remains unsolved.
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