“You’re right. I don’t know what I’m going to do next year. I don’t know if I’ll go to college, or if I’m gonna get a job, or…I don’t know. But what I’m certain of is Silver. If she goes off to Dartmouth, I’ll be sitting in the car right next to her with all my shit packed up, too. She wants to disappear off into the Amazon? I’ll take my malaria pills like a good boy and make sure she doesn’t get eaten. And, shit. If she decides she wants to be a fucking astronaut and go into space, I’ll figure that out too somehow. Whatever direction she decides to head in, and for as long as she wants me by
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