 The desire to be gone, to be anywhere else, comes on so strongly that Dawn feels faint, like some part of her has already broken loose and left. She wants to leave, not just the Reeds house, but South St. Jude, the city. She should never have come back here. What would her life be like if she hadn't ever left? Maybe she and Crystal would take their kids to the same park with a new plastic play structure they played at as kids, shop at the newly renovated Safeway down the street.