Chapter Fourteen
The truth is that unless you manage to live an entirely unexamined life, one day you will encounter your own fundamental self. The magnitude of the disruption this causes will be in direct proportion to how close your fundamental self is to the person society has always said you should be.
–Dr. Abigail Rosen, The F Word: Femininity in the New Century
The 5:48 Greyhound local from Cleveland to Cincinnati (stop six: Millerton) had a funky, overripe smell that made Mitch wistfully recall the sanitized air on her flight over from Heathrow. Besides this one difference, the two conveyances were strikingly similar in that they both lacked leg room and Reginald.
Tall dingy humps of snow half obscured the breakdown lane, and Mitch let her sight coast over their uneven outlines
