story: The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA 

author: Manuel Muñoz

year: 2015

where: on the High Line, not the New York one

note: thinking about the long bus ride I had to take from Phoenix to San Bernadino

a line: “She’s someone who might not have anything in her purse except the folded-up map, who might not know how much money to take on a trip like this.”