The Necklace

Yeah, she was only seventeen; you can guess what that means…
Prologue
The Sleeping Beauty Castle.

The year was 1968 and Susan was sixteen years old. She’d come to Disneyland with her
family, but as soon as they’d entered the gates, she waved goodbye to her mother, brother, and
grandparents, saying she’d meet up with them later at the ice cream parlor on Main Street. She
scurried down the street and across the bridge to the Sleeping Beauty Castle before her mother
had a chance to protest. She knew she’d later be in trouble for running off, but she didn’t care;
she wanted to be alone and away from her family for at least part of the day.

The entrance to the Sleeping Beauty attraction was an obscure doorway that wasn’t
well-marked, and the attraction itself was infrequently visited…. Read more