Chapter 35I wished I hadn’t accepted the full day off, in the end. All I spent the hours leading up to Tuesday’s rally doing was worrying myself sick and pacing my apartment.
Ray met me at the edge of the Public Garden at quarter to four that afternoon. He was across the road, sans stripes, leaning against a streetlight pole and smoking when I emerged from Arlington Station. I studied him as I waited for the walk sign, pretending he was my boyfriend. Would my parents like him? Amanda would. She liked nearly everyone, staring through their packaging with her sky blue eyes and straight into their souls. Some people see only the dog turds, but Amanda always focused on the grass. And there was a lot to like about Ray, I reminded myself as I crossed the street. Maybe I’d get him a Christmas pr
