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Sean South starts now.

Yeah. South starts now. Brian was walking the Arkansas Highway shoulder with only the moon to guide him.

Backpack slung over his shoulder, and it was blisteringly cold.

He was 23 years young, and this was not a friendly evening, weather-wise.

Tonight it was colder than a brass toilet seat in Nova Scotia. His home life was a wreck. He had decided tonight on this very walk

that he was going to end it all. He didn't have the details worked out, but he'd made up his mind.

And in a pickup truck, practically materialized out of nowhere.

The headlights were blinding.

The vehicle pulled over.

Inside was an older woman, and the heater was blaring.

Get in, said the older woman, and she didn't say this as a question.

Brian piled into the bench seat beside her, and the heat felt good on his cold, wet body.

"'Where are you heading?' she said.

Her gray hair was messy, like it hadn't been combed since the Crimean War.

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