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Stand Wherever You Want

2005; University of Iowa; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17077/0021-065x.5994

2330-0361

Jennifer Levin,

Jonathan liked to drive up the mountain and drink in the dark. It seemed like the small-town thing to do, so I drank with him and looked at the stars. He named the constellations, kissed me between shots. Picking out points of light in the black was just about as romantic as Jonathan got, and he could've been making it all up. I'd never seen a sky like that before. Jonathan showed me all the back roads. He laughed when I called the small villages we happened upon settlements. He laughed a lot. We drove all the time. Physics, chaos theory, gravitational pull: the science of the situation is unfortunate?now we drive past each other in traffic. He honks, he grins, and he waves at me frantically, like a lunatic. I anticipate every white Jeep in town. He should not smile, he should not wave, he shouldn't even look at me. There should be a law.