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Five. Oklahoma
His mama had this old radio that just barely pulled in a station out of a town fifty miles away, and sometimes they played songs from New York--songs that made the world seem wider than just what he could see out of his upstairs window. Finally got there on a radio circuit, and it was just flat, empty, brown.
Four. Colorado
Mile-high city or not, he mostly remember it because it means he's almost there.
Three. New Mexico
Couldn't go there without remembering a different Mexico. Jack's who he is and he's not ashamed, but he drives the other way when he can, all the same.
Two. Texas
Must've gone back and forth over it fifteen or twenty times, sometimes North, sometimes South. Always looked better in his rear-view mirror.
One. Wyoming.
Swore to himself that he'd leave and never look back. Managed to keep half that promise. Whether it was the important part he never could say.