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Elsa Dutton : Nothing had prepared me, no books, no teachers, not even my parents. I heard a thousand stories, but none could describe this place, it must be witnessed, to be understood, and yet I've seen it and understand it even less than before I first cast eyes on this place. Some call it the American dessert, others The Great Plains, but those phrases were invented by professors at universities surrounded by the illusion of order and the fantasy of right and wrong. To know it you must walk it, Bleed into its dirt, drown in its rivers, then its name becomes clear, it is hell, and there are demons everywhere. But if this is hell and I'm in it, then I must be a Demon too and I'm already dead.
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Elsa Dutton : [internal monologue] All I knew of sex was rumors. Stories traded among friends as we tried to imagine what that word really meant.
[spies on a couple below her window]
Elsa Dutton : Now I knew...
Alley Woman : [from the alley] Woo!
Elsa Dutton : [...] So much I don't know about life. We learn to read, we learn rules, learn scripture and manners, and how to avoid saying or doing things that make others uncomfortable. All those things seem to be the opposite of life. Seem to strangle it. But now, I'm sleeping on the edge of civilization, and soon we leave the edge behind. Then no rules. Then, only life. What an adventure. What an adventure for all of us...
