You can't just stay here in this little town for the rest of your life. You need to go explore. Learn to live. Don't be afraid to die when your time comes.
I want to die peacefully. In my sleep at the age of 83. Not by getting shot for walking into school at 18. People are getting shot just for going to their mailboxes.
People get shot everyday. That's how it's always been, and that's how it'll always be. It's a normal part of life.
No. You don't understand. Having police outside your school at all hours is NOT "normal".
Those two kids at Frostburg State? They were shot because of a dope deal.
Exactly. And I don't want to be caught in the crossfire of that.
Is that why you don't like big cities?
To be honest, even the idea of going to Cumberland scares the shit out of me. Frostburg is a little too big for me, and I only go to school there.
You need to explore. See things that you can't see back here in the hollow.
Yeah. Because one day I'll be sitting there at a stoplight in my car, watching some guy hold a defenseless woman or child at gunpoint, saying " I wonder if he'll show her a magic trick before he caps her and runs." I've seen enough death. I don't need to see any more.
You don't know that'll happen.
Neither do you, but it could happen.
You need to live.
I'm living perfectly fine up here where we know the residential flower guy on a first name basis. I'm perfectly fine living up here where we have to walk down to the carwash or up to the reservoir just to get cell service. I'll be fine. I don't do cities.
