Chapter 48"Can you believe it, Cas!" Jenny Tompkins exclaimed. "I"m so excited!" She gazed proudly at the framed document hanging neatly over her desk. "Who would have thought that four years would fly by so quickly." She glanced over at her friend who was lying crossways on the bed, thumbing through one of her father"s new gardening magazines. "I"ve actually survived college," Jenny continued, shaking her head as though unable to understand how she had done it. "Now, here I am. A bona fide language instructor. ‘Course I don"t have a job lined up yet, but that"s beside the point. Dad says I can stay here until I land the big one. Great, huh?"
Casina shared her friend"s smile, feeling genuinely happy for her. She knew, however, that had Jenny"s mother still been alive that Jenny would not
