![]() Didn't the Amish send their kids out on rumspringa, to find out what life was like outside and make a real decision on whether or not to stay in their community? So, maybe she was on a kind of vampire rumspringa.īecause that was what she was leaving, even though she definitely was not one of the plasma-challenged. You have to see the world before you can give it up to be here. It's time to find out, the more adult part of her said. ![]() she wasn't sure what she'd be any more, out there. How to adapt, and survive, and even thrive. because as crazy and dangerous as Morganville was, at least she'd learnt how to live in it. ![]() I can turn around, go home, go back where it's safe. She was finding it hard to catch her breath. The weight of it felt suddenly unbearable, and the billboard dissolved into impressionistic swirls as tears formed hot in her eyes. It had a 1950s-era couple (white, of course) next to a finned car as big as a boat, looking into the sunset. ![]() ![]() It seemed a lifetime ago, but here was the same old sign, faded and creaking in the dry desert wind. The billboard at the edge of the border of Morganville hadn't changed since Claire had first driven past it on the way into town at the tender age of sixteen. ![]()
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