Born a Crime

rushing back and I saw it from her
point of view, and it was perfectly
obvious to me why she didn’t want
to get out of the car. She probably
hadn’t wanted to go to the dance
with me in the first place; she
probably owed Tom a favor, and
Tom can talk anyone into anything.
Then I’d left her sitting and waiting
for me for an hour and she was
pissed off. Then she got into the car
and it was the first time we had ever
been alone, and she realized I
couldn’t even hold a conversation
with her. I’d driven her around and
gotten lost in the dark—a young girl
alone in a car in the middle of