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Most students lived in one of the two residences at Rocky Barrens: Segwun or Torrance, microcosms of teenagers trying to be adults, but pushing everything to excess – music, drugs, drinking, dancing, eating, s*x. There was a pulsing energy to everything they did. Like at camp, there was a ‘Polar Bear Dip’ each morning at seven. A large, wrought iron bell hung on a beam on the front porch of Segwun and gonged to notify those courageous enough to brave the freezing lake. When the weather cooled, they called it off altogether, although the bell continued to be rung at all hours by anyone who could reach it. Diana and Aurelle could hear the bell from their cottage across the lake, its echoes ringing eerily over the water in the dark and fog.
Now, Diana was focused intently on her easel a
