The letters went out in mid-February. .. .
Had any of these girls tried to visit the Camp for themselves on that day in February, they would have discovered that there was no such mountain, and that no one within a fifty-mile radius had ever heard of Camp So-And-So .
By the end of the month, twenty-five applications had been completed, signed, and mailed.
Each letter came with a glossy brochure with photographs of young women climbing rocks, performing Shakespeare under the stars, and spiking volleyballs.
Each letter invited its recipient to spend a week at Camp So-and-So, a lakeside retreat for girls nestled high in the Starveling Mountains.
The letters went out in mid-February