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ife will turn you inside out. No matter where you start you ll end
up someplace else even if you stay home. The one thing you can
count on is that you ll be surprised.
For the Hunsenmeir sisters， life didn t just turn them inside out， it
tossed them upside down， then right side up. Perhaps it wasn t life whirling
them around like the Whip ride at the fair. They upended each other.
April 7， 1941， shimmered， a light wind sending Louise s tulips
swaying. Spring had triumphantly arrived in Runnymede， which strad-
dled the Mason-Dixon line. The residents of this small， beautiful town，
built around a square before the Revolutionary War， waxed ecstatic
since springtime warmth had arrived early this fateful year. Probably
every year is fateful to someone or other， but some years everyone re-
members. On April 7， though， Fate seemed far away， shaking up coun-
tries across the Atlantic Ocean.
Julia Ellen， \"Juts，\" slammed the door to her sister Louise s house. She
pursed her lipstick-coated lips and blew a low note then a higher note，
like a towhee bird. Snotty bird-watchers like Orrie Tadia Mojo， Louise s
best friend from her schoolgirl days， called it a Rufous-sided towhee. Juts
always pronounced it two-ey， since it uttered the note twice.
Hearing no response， Juts whistled again. Finally she yelled，
\"Wheezer， where the hell are you?\" Still no answer.
Juts had celebrated her thirty-sixth birthday on March 6. She d
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