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Eating the Dream

Out here you can see America, the real America-small roads, small towns, small minds, all littered with the detritus of waste, despair, and greed. I spend my days chasing the broken white lines of the numbered passages between those towns. I have crossed the borders of the whole forty-eight on an elliptical path that gives a wide berth to the yellow clusters of city centers on my ragged maps. I know cities. It's not any kind of prejudice that I don't visit them anymore, just a need to avoid the limelight; the shadows it casts are too strong for someone of my age. The lights of a small town are just right, a bouquet of neon, headlights, and flickering fluorescence. Makes me feel pretty.

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