The Virgin Suicides Page #4

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.

Hi. Mrs. Lisbon.

I'm Lydia Perl.

I'm putting together a...

Oh!

- Hi, I'm Bonnie. This is Mary.

- Hello, girls.

I'm here to ask you a couple

of questions about Cecilia.

Yeah?

Great, great.

Maybe you could start...

by telling me

a little bit about her.

Did she have

any special interests or hobbies?

- Um, she liked to write in her journal.

- That is great.

Okay. Did she... Did she ever

talk about ending her life?

What's going on here?

Uh, you must be

Mrs. Lisbon.

I'm Lydia Perl.

I'm doing a piece for Channel Two.

You have to leave now.

Ms. Perl.

The suicide of an east side

teenager last summer...

has increased the awareness

of a national crisis.

I now stand in front of the home

where Cecilia Lisbon,

- Why don't they let her rest in peace?

- a 13-year-old...

who liked to paint and write poetry,

tragically put an end to her life.

Psychologists agree

that adolescence today...

is much more fraught by pressures

and complexities than in years past.

More doctors say this frustration

can lead to acts of violence...

whose reality the adolescent cannot

separate from its intended drama.

I baked a pie

full of rat poison.

I thought I could eat it.

you know,

without being suspicious.

My nana, who was 86...

she really liked sweets.

She had three pieces.

- I feel for the mother.

- I know.

You would always wonder if there was

something you could've done.

- Well, I gotta go. See ya later.

- All right, then, bye-bye.

Don't worry.

They took the fence out.

God, you snore loud.

Those girls have

a bright future ahead of them.

The other one was just

gonna end up a kook.

We didn't see

the girls together as a group...

until convocation, September 7.

Mary, Lux.

Bonnie and Therese...

came to school

as though nothing had happened.

We felt that if we kept

looking hard enough.

we might begin to understand what they

were feeling and who they were.

All right, so, if we have... and these

are Venn diagrams as you remember...

If we have "A" and "B"

intersecting,

and "A" and "B".

If "A" intersects "B".

we have this area,

and if "A" is

the union with "B",

we have all of the circle

plus the intersection.

These are the laws

of intersection and union. Okay?

How's it goin'?

Not bad.

"Do a character sketch on the following

characters from Portrait of a Lady".

The first one is Ralph.

Um, he was nice.

It was really sad

when he died.

Oh, my gosh, I can't believe

I just said that.

I am so sorry.

Reading about

the alarming suicide rate,

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