We were going to be married when he got home, but he was killed in Germany. This woman can't be more than twenty-five years old. They tell me I'm still young, that I'll find someone else, but I can't. I've cried so much over the past few years that I can't cry anymore. I decided to come here.
Nobody talks that way today.
Lucy decided that it was time to leave, but as she turned she caught a glimpse of the strange woman out of the corner of her eye. The woman had rushed forward to the wall at the edge of the observation platform, climbed up to the metal fence on top and somehow managed to get through it and throw herself over the edge. Lucy was horrified, but no one else in the crowd seemed to notice a thing. A few stopped to stare at Lucy's obviously horror-stricken expression. The altitude is giving me hallucinations.