Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted with permission from Uvalde’s Darkest Hour (Texas A&M University Press, December 3) by Craig Garnett, who has owned the Uvalde Leader-News, the local newspaper, since 1989.
Eleven-year-old girls, especially close friends sharing feelings, don’t search for words as much as words find them. The sounds that tumble from their lips coalesce into sentences a nanosecond ahead of their brains’ ability to complete the narrative. That is why they finish each others’ sentences or pounce on the last syllable as a springboard to a new, entirely unrelated topic—princesses of non sequitur.
