The Distance From Me To You (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
Linda was in her midthirties; she’d come home from Afghanistan four years ago and enrolled at the University of Texas. The hike was her graduation present to herself, and, as she told McKenna, she was pretty stoked to have only one more state to go before getting her certificate signed at Baxter State Park. McKenna was beyond thrilled to meet another woman going it alone. As Linda showed her the various stamps in her passport, McKenna admired her powerful biceps, covered with tattoos. Linda wore a bandanna over her cropped graying brown hair. McKenna wondered out loud if as many people asked Linda if she felt safe on her own. “Probably not as many as ask you,” Linda said, giving McKenna a quick once-over. “But you’d be surprised. People don’t like to see a woman doing something like this alone, no matter how strong she looks. People were less antsy about my going to war than about me hiking by myself. This doesn’t jibe with their vision of the world.
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