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Sean South starts now.

Yeah. South starts now. The young woman sits in my truck passenger seat.

She is 19 years old.

Her hair is red.

Scottish red.

Luminously red.

People always comment on her hair first. Today, she attended a presentation I gave at the library. Everyone at the library asked about her. They noticed her red

hair and they assumed we were related since my hair is also red. At first, I explained that, no, we're not related, and then I'd tell the story of how we first met

when I first wrote about her some years ago.

But after a while, we got tired of explaining ourselves, and we started just calling her my niece.

The young woman attended my presentation because she is very supportive of me, although heaven knows why.

We come from very different generations.

She is a college kid in a sorority, whereas yesterday a salesperson enrolled me in AARP to save 15%.

But currently, we are driving through Birmingham traffic, and my niece, quote-unquote, is using her GPS

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