Lure of the Unattainable

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LILLY WENGER GREW UP on Copper’s Island, a small fishing town off the coast of Massachusetts. She and her parents lived next door to another young couple with a daughter of the same age named Mary. Lilly and Mary became very close — closer than sisters — which in some families isn’t hard to do, but since neither girl had any siblings of their own and often felt the loneliness particular to only children, each girl became the axis upon which the…