As for Wills, when he came home, he would tell us about the girls he was dating. He’d dated throughout high school, pretty girls who were cheerleaders, pretty girls who were in the honors program, pretty girls who all seemed to be redheads.
Even now, each and every one was a redhead, but he never seemed to show an interest in bringing any of them home with him.
During his junior year he dated one girl, Rissa O’Hara, exclusively, and I began to wonder if she were the one, but they broke up that spring, and she was another one we never did get to meet.
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That summer, Wills and I drove down to Long Island to work with Jake on a project in Port Jefferson, and while Wills stayed there most of the summer, I returned home for four day weekends, one of the perks of being the boss’s broth
