Quincy, IL - Friday Aug. 13
I'm at the Quincy mall and just like malls in all the small towns, it features 16 year old girls dressed up to get pregnant, 18 year olds who all ready are, and the dismal weight on the shoulders of the adults who now realize this is all they get. Even the twenty-somethings stumble along stoop-shouldered, perhaps not defeated but certainly locked in a detente.
The most amazing sense of deja vu dances on the periphery. I've been here before, in Great Falls, MT., Spokane, WA., even in Limoges, France.
It's as if the young ones are looking for justification in accelerating adulthood. Running fast to catch up with destiny..