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But soon Daniel has coerced his lamb into joining him on a road trip to his country cabin, a Lolita-like development in which he nevertheless takes strenuous care to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Even in the thick of Daniel's deception and psychological manipulation, he still makes a show of everything being Tommie's decision, as though she has the requisite maturity to make a judgment call: "This will look a lot like a kidnapping to other people," he cautions her. Ya think, buddy?
We married in October. Roasted a lamb and a hog and half the town came to the neatly clipped green square of buffalo grass behind the house. There was hot apple cider and champagne, silver platters of ripe figs and raw nuts. We moved into the tiny blue and white bungalow where Mrs. Gordon had lived as a girl. The beams of the house were cedars, the rafters were firs. It was newly painted and three blocks from the high school where Ben taught English. All the young women saw me and called me blessed. At daybreak the vast flat world to the east opened before us like the smooth and easy page of a prayer book. Behind us the Rockies were invisible in the distance, though still there, I knew. Still dark and still rising. Geologically complex. Crystalline cores guarded by uplifted walls of sedimentary rock slowly wearing themselves out.