Reply #72: At the dentist in Northampton, Massachusetts

[Demoiselle]

I was a senior at Smith. The dentist's receptionist walked into the room and said, "The President's been shot." The dentist went into his outer office, very upset, and tried to make a phone call. He couldn't. Every line in the state (and everywhere, most likely) was tied up. He slapped a temp filling in my mouth and asked me to leave.
I got into the student lounge on campus just in time to see Walter Cronkite choke up as he made the horrible announcement. We all spent that weekend wandering aimlessly around campus or locked in front of the few tv sets in our dorms.
The terrible hurt has never stopped. It just moves a little farther into the distance.