“How did you not see a moose?” “It came out of nowhere!” I burst. His hands go up in a sign of surrender. “Whoa … Okay. I’m just tryin’ to understand how it happened,” he says. “I don’t know how it happened! She told me to parallel park behind that truck. There was a driveway and this big hedge, and a tree …,” I sputter, trying to rationalize how a full-grown bull moose managed to make its way down the driveway and into the path of my reversing truck, without me spotting it first. “I was nervous, and I was looking for cars on the road, not moose?” “Fair enough,” Jonah says, but I sense he
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