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WES:

You want to go for coffee after we

send the girls off?

JAKE:

No. Thanks anyway. I've got to get

over to the office.

WES:

Anne wants to make sure you come

over for dinner Sunday. With Kristen

gone you'll be all alone.

Jake nods.

Kristen, wearing a light blue sweater and skirt, emerges

from the bedroom. She smiles demurely.

Her suitcase is in her hand. Jake, for a moment, feels a

sharp twinge of loss. A foreboding of the day when Kristen,

fully grown, will leave his house for good.

CUT TO:

EXT. TWELFTH ST. CHURCH - DAY

Parents watch their children board a snow-covered bus outside

Twelfth St. Church. A banner across the side of the bus reads:

YOUNG CALVINIST CONVENTION

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. -- BELLFLOWER, CALIF.

Most of the parents, working folk long accustomed to the

brutal Michigan winters, wear heavy overcoats, bearskin caps,

fur-lined gloves and galoshes.

Jake, bare-headed and wearing a thin topcoat over his suit,

waits with Kristen, Marsha, Wes and Anne. Harold Jay pelts

the side of the bus with a snowball.

MRS. STEENSMA, one of the trip counselors, reads off the

youngsters' names as they board the bus:

MRS. STEENSMA

...Daverman, DeBeer, DeBoer, DeJong,

DeVries...

Marsha kisses her parents goodbye and heads toward the bus.

MRS. STEENSMA

(continuing)

...Vander Ark, Vander Hoven, Vander

Keen, Van Dorn, Van Dyke, E., Van

Dyke, S...

When Kristen hears her name she starts toward the bus, then

stops, comes back and gives her father a farewell kiss.

JAKE:

Take care of yourself, Kristen. I

love you.

KRISTEN:

I will, Daddy.

JAKE:

If you need anything, just call.

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