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A poignant story by Ms. Appollo, of four high school friends reunited, having gone their several ways. Lawyer and writer Gia Scarpino returns to her Pennsylvania coal town of origin after a successful career in the big world outside the coalbanks. We then learn that the scariest things in the cemeteries up on Cicada Mountain are not the ghosts of the departed. Illuminated by that rare and special Spring Mountain light, one of the protagonists makes the apt observation applicable to all returnees, everywhere: "... It's always tenth grade."