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They drove west into the bright afternoon sun. Caitlin squinted and wished she’d thought to pick up a pair of sunglasses at Nordstrom Rack. She had her new purse with her new wallet and I.D. tucked into it, and she supposed if it got really bad, they could pull off at a gas station where she could buy some cheap glasses.
In the meantime, though, it just felt good to be on the road, to watch the desert landscape flash past as they left Tucson and headed toward Phoenix. She’d known in her heart that this was the right thing to be doing, and yet she’d still had the thought in the back of her mind that Luz would try to dissuade them, tell them that going to California was a terrible idea. According to Alex, though, she had caved pretty quickly.
They hit the Phoenix sprawl just as rush ho
