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Finally, the girls send a message to the boys to come to the house.

Shortly after the boys arrive, three of the sisters kill themselves: Bonnie hangs herself, Therese overdoses on sleeping pills, and Lux dies of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Mary attempts suicide by putting her head in the oven, but fails.

Mary continues to live for another month before successfully ending her life by taking sleeping pills.

Newspaper writer Linda Perl notes that that mass suicide comes a year after Cecilia's first attempt.

After the suicide " free-for-all ," Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon leave the neighborhood.

The house is sold to a young couple from the Boston area and most of the Lisbons ' personal effects are either thrown out or sold in a garage sale.

The narrators scavenge through the trash to collect much of the " evidence " they mention.