March 07, 2003
Mary Karr on leaving home
"No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars…"
--Mary Karr, Cherry (2000)
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