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“The most durable form of belonging starts, oddly, with solitude. The better you are at being alone, the more comfortable you are as you go and the more effortlessly you belong in the places where you arrive.”

The school that used to be right here, now a parking lot. The ornate hotel that used to be over there, also a parking lot. In the 1960s and '70s, preservation and destruction had traveled hand in hand, with the destructive forces usually just a little bit swifter. "There was a parking lot panic," Jim says. "The suburbs were booming. The town thought it had to fight back with places to park."

“It doesn’t take more than a couple of days for the walker to become condescending toward cars. You know that a human is driving but lose the feel that someone inside has a single thought of you, the roadside apparition.”