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I'm posting this because I still feel sick when I think about it,

and writing it down

is the only thing that made my hands stop shaking long enough to sleep last night.

My name isn't important.

I live in Nevada.

I've driven highway 50 more times than I can count because my family is split between

the Reno area and eastern Nevada.

If you don't know the road from Carson City to Ely, it's two

lanes through empty basins and passes, fuel every long while, and not much else. Late October

is tricky out there, clear one minute, freezing the next, and so quiet you start listening

to your own breathing just to have a sound inside the car. My friend Mark came

with me this time because I had to be in Ely early the next morning. We figured we'd save a hotel

and knock it out overnight. I topped off in Fallon around 10, grabbed a coffee, checked the tires,

and told myself it was just another night drive on the loneliest road in America.

I've done it half asleep before without anything worse than a jackrabbit in the headlights.

That's what I told myself. I was wrong.

By the time we passed Austin, the dash said 1130 and the temperature read 32.

We kept the windows up to save the heat.

There wasn't a lot to talk about.

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