I steered my Toyota snugly between a Ford and a Chevy pickup, one rusty and the other spanking new but road-splattered and sporting a Ducks Unlimited sticker in the rear window. A handful of people on the street took mincing steps as they went about their day, trying their hardest to stay upright...
Berns and I needed to head out from Paynesville’s nicest hotel, the Relax Inn, to run errands at 10:30 at night was more difficult than getting her to leave her house. Since she’d bought into my argument that her home wasn’t safe, she didn’t want to let me out of her sight. Fortunately, she was t...