Tufts University enters the story as the place where Geri died in a dorm-room fire at twenty-one. The brief recollection of the fire shifts it from a remembered newspaper tragedy, apparently accidental, toward a death whose circumstances have become newly uncertain.

Geri’s Attendance and Death

Scott Duncan confirms that Geri attended Tufts University. She died at twenty-one in a fire in her dorm room. The evidence establishes the university as the setting of her studies and the location associated with her death, but gives no further account of the campus or her time there.

A Remembered Fire Reconsidered

Grace Lawson recognizes the connection through newspaper coverage she had read while undergoing physical therapy. She had not known Geri, but remembered reports of the fire and believed it had been an accident, perhaps electrical. Scott says that this was what he had thought too, until three months before their conversation. His changed understanding leaves the fire’s presumed accidental explanation unsettled and makes Tufts University the starting point for a story that is about to be reopened.