Chapter 25
A Good Gosoon
YOUNG PATRICK ALLEN, a true Gemini with two distinct personalities layered over a wandering spirit, had made a promise to himself in his early teens—he would move out of the city by his twenty-first birthday, which was now only a year away. He wanted to say goodbye to tight places like his apartment on Tenth Avenue and planned to go out West for grand adventures in wide-open spaces. In some of his dreams, Patrick was a gold prospector; in others, a rough-and-tumble sheriff; and, in a few, a cowboy out on the range. His fantasies came in different varieties, but just one size—they were all big. A mammoth man shouldn’t be forced to live small—he couldn’t even stretch out his arms; something was always in the way. Patrick wanted out and he often escaped through dayd
