Her Story continued in a Journal of 3 Books (1975 - 1978)
KC's story continued in a bound blue journal (with gold decorations) starting about two weeks after she'd finished writing her "40 pages" (July 22, 1975 - September 28, 1975).
She organized this "Blue & Gold" Journal into three parts, or "Books".
Book I spans Oct. 13, 1975 to Oct. 26, 1976. Book II spans June 15, 1977 to Oct. 19, 1977, and Book Three spans Nov. 8, 1977 to July 29th, 1978.
Book I begins with this dedication:
To Jimmy who probably started all this
To Peter who helped it to continue
To God who is the reason for it all
Jimmy was her younger brother, born when she was four years old. Despite their age difference, she took to him immediately. She told me that he was special and she loved spending time with him playing, observing nature, reading to him.
She loved him dearly, deeply, all of his short life.
I've skipped ahead in this introduction to include a poem that she wrote recalling the night she learned of his of his death, which occurred a few weeks after her 8th birthday...
KC & her brother Jimmy
The Night My Brother Died (undated, likely October 1989)
The night my brother died
I waited for my mother to say goodnight
I lay awake for hours, not knowing,
But hearing grown-up voices,
Talking softly, so softly…
When the band of light
Beneath my bedroom door
Went out and she didn't come in,
I started to call her,
"Mom,
Mom
Momaaaaaa."
Over and over as only a child would,
Until at last,
Several hours later,
Several hundred years,
Or so, she opened the door,
I heard it click, and she stood there,
Still slim then, and naked.
I sat up and she sat down,
She said, your brother's dead,
And a few thousand years,
Eternity, hell, and all spinning time,
Passed by,
The whole creation went on without us,
While we looked at each other in the dark,
And I thought, Catch me,
And held out my arms.
Who caught who? That's what I wonder now.