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EVELYN – JULY 1940
Evelyn had never kept company with a man before, so she was never quite sure how to refer to Russell when she talked to her mother or to Viola. Was the proper word "suitor?” Or was there a new word in these modern times? When she'd read Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, she'd liked the term suitor. As if the man might suit the woman, like a certain style of clothing, and she was quite certain that Russell suited her. She often found excuses to go out to the garage when she knew he was there working on the car or practicing music, and he'd taken her out every Friday night now for almost two months. Did she dare think that they might be a couple?
This Friday night, early in July, they were at the Fox Theater to see Babes in Arms, and he had his arm around her shoulders,
