She stopped then, and I just looked at her, her face gray and moonlit and split into a thousand little pieces by the weave of the window screen. Her wide, round eyes flitted back and forth from her notebook to me. 'Lots of people get divorced and don't kill themselves,' I said.
'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told Juanita Alvarez. And then she said...' Margo flipped the notebook page. 'She said that Mr. Joyner was troubled. And then I asked what that meant, and then she told me that we should just pray for him and that I needed to take the sugar to my mom, and I said forget the sugar and left.'
I said nothing again. I just wanted her to keep talking-that small voice tense with the excitement of almost knowing things, making me feel like something important was happening to me.
'I think I maybe know why,' she finally said.
'Why?'
'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.