Eve said, We could keep going. The road never ends. At least that’s what some of us used to say. It hit me wrong. I said, Yes, it does. It fucking absolutely does end. That’s fake, crazy hobo wisdom or real estate salesman wisdom or politician bullshit. When people come all the way across the continent and see the Pacific, they usually know for sure the road has ended, maybe in a way they hadn’t planned on, but that particular dream or fantasy of running away forever from your problems is done. You can’t keep running west forever. Whatever they thought they were running toward or away from,
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