Highway 99 is the backbone of the state and she bled it out onto pages, so the rest of this country…

ATrigueiro

Jul 7, 2018·1 min read

Highway 99 is the backbone of the state and she bled it out onto pages, so the rest of this country understood there were REAL people and REAL life in California.

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… would soon discover, has a way of showing you her wounds and, in the process, opening up your own. And if you read her in California and if you love California and if you are not yourself a native daughter of the Golden West, you will, inevitably, ask yourself why exactly you are here, and why you had ever been so foolish as to live anywhere less heartbreaking than this.

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