Chapter 35

• I’m on cloud nine as I watch the landscape changing outside the window. Even the view from the highway is intriguing to me. I’ve never been far from home.
• The farthest I’ve gone before now was Chicago one time for my sixteenth birthday.
• Sinatra’s silky vocals and brass set the mood while we drive through the city to the Brooklyn Bridge. I am fascinated by the world outside. I can’t get enough of the architecture, the fashion, and even the grunge and grime of the city enchants me.