SMITHY TURNS AWAY AND stares out the window on her right. In the exterior rearview mirror, she spots the white television van. Angus flicks his turn signal and takes the off-ramp. Two cars later, the van also exits. At the light, Angus signals a left. The van follows. Smithy feels about five years old. She needs a hand to hold. She has a sudden memory of Dad taking the four of them shopping. What was the occasion? They weren’t in the Jeep, which wasn’t big enough for the whole family. They were in Mom’s car. (Dad always called it that. “We’ll take Mom’s car,” he’d say.) Smithy sees herself getting out of the Suburban. She’s wearing sandals, so it must be warm weather. She can hear the satisfying clip-clop of flat soles. Who gets Tris out of his car seat? She can’t picture that. But they let go of him. As soon as he can walk, and certainly once he can run, Tris is on the move unless you have him in a harness. He doesn’t mind crashing into things so he doesn’t look left, right, up, down or across.
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