I pulled my white Jeep Wrangler into one of the few available parking spaces and sat there for a minute, trying to come to grips with the trepidation I felt inside me. It was a palpable sensation, one that started in the center of my abdomen, a tightness that creeped upward and downward through my body, snakelike and invasive. I glanced around the sunlit lot. The coffee shop wasn’t packed,