Wednesday, February 6, 2008

The Fire

Back in our apartment, Amy had made it clear she was done with the search for Albert Lee, but I had one more thing on my mind. What if Albert Lee hadn't completely disappeared, but had only changed his name or something? It seemed weird that someone could just leave and never be heard from again. More over, it seemed weird that his crazy neighbor still held such animosity towards him. I decided to conduct another search for Albert, but I left out the Lee. It was possible he just changed his name, wasn't it? I filtered the search results to include Morgantown and the correct dates, even his supposed Bolshevik connections until finally I found something. On January 28th, 1978 there was a fire in South Park. The details had been lost throughout the decades through, what the article referred to as "suspicious behavior", but the location and date of the fire was known. A house on 715 Par Street had been lost, but no casualties reported.
"715 Par Street?" I thought, "There is no Par Street in South Park."
"Amy!" I called out and Amy came walking into the room.
"What is it? Jen, are you still researching Albert? I thought we were going to give it a rest? It's a joke, or something I don't want any part in or something...."
"I know, but look at this!" I showed Amy the article and she gasped.
"Jen, could that possibly be Park Street? "
"I was thinking the same thing."

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