Chapter 24 excerpt

I’m charmed by flashy lights in a way that skinny people aren’t. You see a hiking trip as a really good time, and I’m at Big Boy’s Hamburgers because they have bright red Strawberry Sundaes and a 50’s car show on Friday nights. You want to go to a museum, but I want to sit in the caboose inside the Spaghetti factory and eat the managers special because it comes with a giant polish sausage, tomato pasta, fried chicken and the Mizithra cheese noodles. It’s just a great value. And it keeps you busy, especially if you order it with a bottomless Shirley Temple. Your art gallery is a lot of walking and thinking, and you don’t get to sit inside a train.