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Lisa
Day 1 of grace
At some point she stopped walking. It was just starting to get light, and there was a bus stop on a road in the middle of farmland. Farmland? But there was a cow, so it counted.
Where did you think you were going?
I thought this was going to be Antioch. What’s past Antioch on this side of Mount Diablo? I wish I had a map.
She fell asleep, for a while, on the bus stop bench. It was like being in a movie, one of those movies where at the beginning the main character’s beloved mother dies or something, and then she sets off on a trek across the country, meeting fabulous people, eating exotic food, living off the generosity of strangers. By the end of the movie you’d laughed and cried and felt moved to change your whole life, started thinking about it while you got
