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Show Hall. But she also knew that there was no longer any reason for her mother to stay. With the end of the tour, her mother would leave and she would be left alone. Anxiously, she turned to her mother, "Would you like to see the area beyond the courts over there?" She pointed to line of tennis courts just beyond the field. "We've already seen that part of the campus. That's the pool, remember?" "Well I wouldn't mind seeing it again, would you?" Her mother looked at her wearily. "Oh, Kim, I'm exhaust-" Then suddenly, as if reading Kim's thoughts, she changed her tone abruptly and put her arm around Kim. "Honey, I can't tour the campus forever. Sooner or later I have to go." "I know," said Kim, hating to be such a baby about the whold thing, but the school was so much different that she had pictured it, and the girls seemed so much older than she. With her wide, innocent looking eyes, Kim seemed strangely naive and young compared the girls on the tour. With a slow deliberate pace, she walked with her mother across the grassy field until she was back inside the foreboding Residence Hall. The high, stone walls echoed anxious, chattering voices. She couldn't see anyone else in the hall who seemed to feel as out of place as she did. "Remember, Kim, Sights Up!" said her mother. Reluctantly, Kim nodded. That was an expression her 20 |