Chapter 26 – Secrets
Wednesday Afternoon, June 25th, 2014
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After I checked in to the little 10 room roadside motel that time seemed to have forgotten, I asked the desk clerk where I could find a pay phone. The otherwise dated rooms did have phones but I didn’t want to take the risk of calling Mel and being traced if, because of me, she was being tracked now too. The barely out of his teens young man behind the counter just shrugged at my question. He was so young, he probably had no idea what a pay phone was.
I was back in the SUV stopping at every little store, dinner and gas station I came to, looking for a public phone. One finally materialized about 4 miles from my motel out in front of an old tire repair shop that had seen better days like most everything else around.
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