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[00:00.00]Everyone dated the demise of our neighborhood
[00:02.55]From the suicide of the Lisbon girls.
[00:05.86]People saw their clairvoyance in the wiped-out elms
[00:08.71]And harsh sunlight.
[00:11.06]Some thought the torture tearing the Lisbon girls
[00:13.44]Pointed to a simple refusal to accept
[00:15.73]The world as it was handed down to them:
[00:18.08]So full of flaws.
[00:21.63]But the only thing we are certain of after all these years
[00:24.09]Is the insufficiency of explanations.
[00:28.32]'Obviously doctor,
[00:30.21]You've never been a thirteen year-old girl.'
[01:00.83]The Lisbon girls were 13,
[01:03.40]Cecile, 14, Lux, 15, Bonnie, 16, Mary, and 17, Therese.
[01:19.01]No one could understand how Mrs.
[01:20.80]Lisbon and Mr. Lisbon, a math teacher,
[01:25.40]Had produced such beautiful creatures.
[01:29.45]From that time one, the Lisbon house began to change.
[01:33.20]Almost every day, and even when she wasn't keeping an eye on Cecilia,
[01:39.09]Lux would suntan on her towel wearing a swimsuit that caused
[01:43.46]The knife-sharpener to give her a 15-minute demonstration for free.
[01:49.08]The only reliable boy who got to know Lux was
[01:51.67]Trip Fontaine,
[01:53.96]For only 18 months before the suicides had emerged
[01:57.01]From baby fat, to the delight of girls and mothers alike.
[03:09.24]But few anticipated it would be so drastic.
[03:15.25]The girls were pulled out of school, and Mrs.
[03:17.33]Lisbon shut the house for maximum security isolation.
[03:25.45]The girls' only contact to the outside world was through
[03:28.06]The catalogs they ordered that started to fill
[03:30.14]The Lisbon's mailbox with pictures of high-end
[03:33.65]Fashions and brochures for exotic vacations.
[03:38.51]Unable to go anywhere,
[03:40.03]The girls traveled in their imaginations:
[03:43.21]To gold-tipped Siamese temples or past an old man,
[03:47.70]The leaf broom tidying the carpeted of Japan
[03:53.50]And Cecelia hadn't died. She was a bride in Calcutta.
[03:58.97]Collecting everything we could of theirs,
[04:01.19]We couldn't get the Lisbon girls out of our minds,
[04:04.75]But they were slipping away.
[04:07.14]The colors of their eyes were fading,
[04:09.25]Along with exact locations of moles and dimples.
[04:13.11]From five, they had become four,
[04:15.45]And they were all (the living and the dead),
[04:18.41]Become shadows. We would have lost them
[04:21.39]Completely if the girls hadn't contacted us.
[04:36.57]Lux was the last to go. Fleeing from the house,
[04:40.57]We forgot to stop at the garage. After the suicide free-for-all,
[04:45.47]Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon gave up any attempt to lead a normal life.
[04:50.05]They had Mr. Henry pack up the house,
[04:52.14]Selling what furniture he could at a garage sale.
[04:55.89]Everyone went just to look. Our parents did not buy used furniture,
[05:02.05]And they certainly didn't buy furniture tainted by death.
[05:09.11]We of course took the family photos that were put out with the trash.
[05:12.97]Mr. Lisbon put the house on the market,
[05:16.28]And it was sold to a young couple from Boston.
[05:20.85]It didn't matter in the end how old they had been,
[05:24.21]Or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them,
[05:29.74]And that they hadn't heard us call; still did not hear us,
[05:34.81]Calling out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time,
[05:39.80]Alone in suicide, which is deeper than death,
[05:45.85]And where we will never find the pieced to put them back together.