Chapter 15THE SUPREME COURT SAID YOU COULD
Once Ivy’s ankle felt good enough, she, Nick, and Maggie spent the afternoon riding their bikes around town. King, the great purple dog, trotted beside them as they circled the familiar streets of Coffey. They stopped by Judy’s Beauty Shop and made faces at Judy through the shop window. Judy laughed and pretended to chase them away. Judy was thirty-one and Ivy wondered why she had never remarried. Judy told her she would never rely on a man again.
The Iowa sky remained blue and cloudless. The spring sun warmed their faces as they rode around the town square before parking their bikes and sitting outside the Coffey Shop. King curled up on the sidewalk next to them.
After Bertha Tuttle, the official town snoop, whispered to everyone about the dis
