He was well past Fort Collins and on the outskirts of Cheyenne when he began to feel teary. A dozen legal procedures, plus the sentence itself, had dug a three-year hole in his life—oddly, the same amount of time it had taken for his divorce to come through. It had been at least that long, he realized, since Laura had been, in any respect, her daddy’s little girl. After her high-school graduation he had wanted to buy her a BMW. Instead, she had chosen a Subaru.
Han var godt forbi Fort Collins og i udkanten af Cheyenne, da han begyndte at føle tårer. Et dusin juridiske procedurer, plus den sætning selv, havde gravet en treårig hul i hans liv-sært, den samme mængde tid, det havde taget for hans skilsmisse at komme igennem. Det havde været det mindste så længe, han indså, da Laura havde været, i enhver henseende, hendes fars lille pige. Efter hendes high-school eksamen havde han ønskede at købe hende en BMW. I stedet havde hun valgt en Subaru.