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I“I’m not just going to tell you … I’m going to show you.”

start the car, turning the wheel in the direction of Seacliff.

“Aren’t you going to answer me?” Mara asks from the passenger seat.

She falls silent beside me, watching the narrow roadways widen out as we

leave her rundown neighborhood, venturing into the broad, tree-lined streets

leading up to China Beach.

Tension builds in her body as each minute passes. Mara can’t help her

curiosity, even when she’s afraid of what she might learn.

I rest my hand on her thigh to calm her.

It works—the tight muscle relaxes under my palm. She leans against my arm,

her head resting on my shoulder.

I remember that Mara told me she doesn’t even have a driver’s license. In

some ways she’s remarkably independent, but she has these holes in her

education. Things she couldn’t teach herself, because nobody would lend her

a car to practice.

Abruptly, I pull the Tesla against the curb.

Mara sits up. “What are you doing?”

“You’re going to drive us home.”

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