He recounts a fateful day, when the two were children playing in their family's barn in rural Nebraska.
With their parents not home, they play a forbidden game, taking turns climbing to the top of a ladder in their barn and leaping from a crossbeam seventy feet (21 metres) in the air down into a haystack.
Meanwhile, Larry is too wrapped up in his own burgeoning career as a high-priced lawyer to come to her aid, brushing off her many letters asking him to visit.
He is now left with a newspaper article of Kitty's suicide ("Call Girl Swan Dives to her Death"), and her final letter, sent two weeks before she died, which reads, "I've been thinking about it a lot lately... and what I've decided is that it would have been better for me if that last rung had broken before you could put the hay down".
It is also the town next door to Gatlin, the location of "Children of the Corn", and appears in It to introduce the adult Ben Hanscom.