"Eddings, David - Regina's Song V2.0" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)all they were worth. Along toward midnight, things
started to get physical. There were a few drunken fights, and a fair number of boys and girls were slipping off into the darkness for assorted boy-girl entertainments. At that point Regina and Renata decided that it was time to leave. They slipped away from the party, hopped into their new Pontiac-a graduation present from their folks- and started back to Everett. Regina, the dominant twin, probably drove. Renata had her driver's license, but she almost never took the wheel. They took the usual shortcut that winds up through Forest Park. It was in the vicinity of the petting zoo where they had a flat tire. As best the authorities were able to reconstruct what happened, Regina left the car and walked to the zoo to find a phone. Renata stayed with the Pontiac for a while, then went looking for her sister. The next morning the twins were discovered near the zoo. One was dead, raped and then hacked to death with something that wasn't very sharp. The other twin was sitting beside the body with a look of total incomprehension on her face. When the authorities tried to question her, she replied in a language that nobody could understand. The authorities-assorted cops, detectives, the coroner, extensively, but they didn't learn much: the boss and the missus were shattered and even in the best of times, they couldn't translate the girls' private language-they couldn't even tell the girls apart. So after the cops discovered that Regina was the dominant twin, they assumed that it'd been Regina who'd been murdered and Renata who'd gone bonkers. But nobody could prove it. The footprints routinely taken of all newborns turned out to be missing from the records at Everett General Hospital, and identical twins have identical DNA. Logic said that the dead girl was most likely Regina, but logic wasn't good enough for filling out forms. Les Greenleaf nearly flipped when he saw his daughter listed as an "unidentified female" in official reports. The surviving twin continued to answer all questions in twin-speak, and so the Greenleafs had no choice but to put her in a private sanitarium in the hope that the headshrinkers could wake up her mind. They had to fill out papers, of course, and they arbitrarily listed their surviving daughter as Renata-but they couldn't prove it either. The murder remained unsolved. My folks and I attended the funeral, of course, but |
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