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September 17, 2003

This is what I used to look like:

Those photos must have been taken about two years ago, when Quick and I were on vacation at the Cape. We stayed in this amazing house out in the hills of Truro. It belonged to clients of hers, these two women in their 60s and 70s who were going to go bicycling around the South of France for a couple of weeks. They needed someone to feed their cats, we needed a place to stay on the Cape, so everyone was happy. While they were pedalling up and down hills of Provence, Quick and I mostly hung out and watched TV. We had one farcical canoeing attempt in the Pamet—that river has a very strong current, and we kept getting fouled up in the reeds.

It was a long time ago, and not just chronologically. I feel like I've transformed into someone else entirely in the past three months. Quick certainly doesn't approve of whom I've become. But I do. Yes, indeedy. I feel alive for the first time in years.