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At 53, Dakota had done the following things: tended bar in Biloxi, managed a storage unit facility in Tulsa, sold used furniture in a strip mall outside Amarillo, and spent two winters as a night security guard at a closed-down textile plant in North Carolina. She had no children, no pets, no living parents, and an ex-husband who had remarried a woman named Paisley, which Dakota thought sounded less like a person and more like a scented candle.

“I’m thinking about it.”

“You look like someone who’s been passing through for thirty years.”

She thought about 53. The year she stopped.