Chapter 21: Looking for KaylaThere was only one other place I could think of where Kayla might be, and it was not a place I particularly wanted to go. I took Highway 78 back into Tupelo, then veered off onto Highway 45 South heading south down into Monroe County.
I had been tempted to ask Jackson Ledbetter to go with me, or even Tonya, Keke’s mother and my best friend, but had decided against it. This was not a part of my past that I wanted either of them to visit. The trip was also not without a bit of risk, at least not for gay men and black women.
I drove by many cotton fields and soybean fields along a route I remembered well from the many visits I’d made to Kayla during her pregnancy, taking her to check-ups, doctor visits. KUDZU offered Elvis’s “In the Ghetto.”
On a lonely stretch
