The Shorts -- Out and Back

The Dirtbag Diaries

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Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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"A lot of folks like a loop trail or a point-to-point run, but I find something really magical about a good out-and-back. On the way out, I feel one way. Then I turn around and run the same steps back, but I feel different,” writes Anya Miller. When Anya learned that her stepdad had passed away, she immediately headed to her favorite Colorado trail in the Indian Peaks Wilderness to start moving through the overwhelming grief that she felt.

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1:02.2	Target stores. I don't like going to target anymore. Those fluorescent lights. They're just a
1:10.1	bunch of crap in there that I don't need. Plus, I always think that I'm gonna get
1:14.4	bad news if I decide to pruse the store's happily colored aisles. The T and PTSD
1:19.8	stands for Target for me. The last time I was in Target was in 2003, Boulder,
1:25.2	Colorado. I had graduated from university a few months ago and was still fresh
1:30.3	with the feeling of having completed something truly big. I heard my cell phone
1:34.9	ring, flipped it open and flippantly answered. It was my brother who usually
1:40.3	greets me with a joke in a laugh. Instead, he sounded palpably serious. No beating
1:47.1	around the bush. He said, Onya, Gordon's dead. It was sudden and unexpected. A terrible
1:58.0	fluke. I crumpled to the cold tile floor amidst a bunch of material shit I didn't
2:06.6	need, crying for the one thing I did need. A dad.
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