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could be picked back up again all that easily. She was wishing for a compass, an ax, a protective woodsman, a train ticket home, a home to go to at the other end of the train ride. Mimm didn't seem surprised that Travis was gone. "He' s never done this exact thing before," she said, "but it' s a familiar event, anyway. I thought it was diff erent this time, his coming home, because he'd found you. He had a nice thing going at the lumberyard, a real job. Last time he took off , he stole my VCR and I didn't hear from him for two years. en he calls from New York-he' s been tending bar, he' s got a girl-you. 'Can I bring her home, Mom?' he asks. 'I want to start again.' So I cleaned out everything I had stored in the garage and put it down below. I don't even have room in there for my car anymore." Mimm looked at Abbie' s cell phone between them on the kitchen table. "I wouldn't expect a call anytime soon." Abbie wasn't breathing any more than she had to. She felt as if she were on pause, subduing an urge to fl ee since there was no place to fl ee. Bewildered by the turn her life had taken. "You can stay here," Mimm said on her way out. "Really, stay here until you can fi gure out what

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Author

DeGhett, Stephanie

Publisher

Project MUSE; University of Missouri at Columbia (ISSN 1548-9930)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)