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anywhere but the driveway for the foreseeable future I'd hitchhike down to Lewiston, then out to our little house in Harlow if it wasn't too late If it was, I'd snooze in one of the hospital lounges It wouldn't be the first ti up with ainst a Coke machine, for that matter

"I'll make sure the key's under the red wheel-barrow," she said "You knohere I mean, don't you?"

"Sure" My mother kept an old red wheelbarrow by the door to the back shed; in the su of it for soht Mrs McCurdy's news home to me as a true fact: my mother was in the hospital, the little house in Harlohere I'd grown up was going to be dark tonight-there was no one there to turn on the lights after the sun went down Mrs McCurdy could say she was young, but when you're just twenty-one yourself, forty-eight seems ancient

"Be careful, Alan Don't speed"

My speed, of course, would be up to whoever I hooked a ride with, and I personally hoped that who-ever it ould go like hell As far as I was con-cerned, I couldn't get to Central Maine Medical Center fast enough Still, there was no sense worrying Mrs McCurdy

"I won't Thanks"

"Welco to be just fine And won't she be so what had happened and where I was going I asked Hector Pass-more, the more responsible of my roommates, to call my adviser and ask hiet whacked for cutting-two or three of e of clothes into -eared copy of Introduction to Philosophy, and headed out I dropped the course the folloeek, although I had been doing quite well in it The way I looked at the world changed that night, changed quite a lot, and nothing in es I cas underneath, you see-underneath-and no book can explain what they are I think that sos are there If you can, that is

It's a hundred and twenty miles froin County, and the quickest way to get there is by I-95

The turnpike isn't such a good road to take if you're

hitchhiking, though; the state police are apt to boot

anyone they see off-even if you're just standing on

the raive you the boot-and if the same cop