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"Everyone dates the demise of our neighborhood from the suicide of the Lisbon girls. People saw their clairvoyance in the wiped-out elms, the harsh sunlight, and the continuing decline of our auto industry. Even then, as teenagers, we tried to put the pieces together. We still can't. Now whenever we run into each other at business parties we find ourselves in the corner going over the evidence one more time. All to understand those five girls, who after all those years we can't get out of our minds."
"And so we started to learn about their lives, coming to hold collected memories of times we hadn't experienced. We felt the imprisonment of being a girl; the way it made your mind active and dreamy and how you ended up knowing what colors went together. We knew that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. We knew that they knew everything about us and that we couldn't fathom them at all."