Senior Moments: Bookmarking the moment when a competitor became a comrade

I found the slender silver bookmark in a small compartment of my old jewelry box; that’s where I had placed it when I graduated from high school. The matching one lives 3,000 miles away, maybe holding a place in a book Larry is reading.
Larry and Patty, as we were known then, both desperately wanted to be named editor-in-chief of our high school newspaper. We had both worked hard and were equally qualified, although I suspect each of us thought they had a little bit of an edge over the oth