![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We both like the girl she was, and I like the woman she has become. We laugh at the improbability of it, of someone barely more than a child poking around in Beatrix Potter's garden by the Wall, watching out for Mr McGregor and his blunderbuss, and looking for a step-ladder to scale one of the most fortified barriers on earth. I laugh with her about rummaging around for a ladder in other people's sheds, and I laugh harder when she finds one. I laugh with Miriam as she laughs at herself, and at the boldness of being sixteen. I sit in the chair exploring the meaning of dumbstruck, rolling the word around in my mind. I could have been wrong, but I was right.' If she had any future it was over there, and she needed to get to it. I assumed that there, behind it, was the west, and I was right. “Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. ![]()
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