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Dewey and Suze go to the dump. As they walk, Suze considers that she feels happy and authentic with Dewey, a feeling she doesn’t get with other girls her age. On their way from the dump, they sing a playground version of The Colonel Bogey March. Suze puts an arm around Dewy.
They stop suddenly when they run into Joyce and Barbara, who mockingly call Dewy and Suze the Sad Sack Club. Suze feels Dewy pulling away from her, but she tightens her arm around her, feeling resentful that Joyce and Barbara have disrupted the joyful mood. Joyce and Barbara mockingly pick through Suze and Dewey’s possessions.
Suze pushes Joyce, who falls into a puddle. Barbara and Joyce call Suze “Truck” and tell Suze that everyone calls her that. Dewey spits on Joyce’s shoe.
Suze and Dewey continue home, sure that they will be in big trouble. This seems to be confirmed when they enter the house and see Terry sitting with Oppie (Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Hill).
Oppie holds up a telegram and says that there has been an accident.
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