Some men are handed a map. He was handed twenty-three years of silence and a scattered puzzle in the dust.
His father became a man who left him the wheel. His mother never explained.
Through faded pawn receipts and rusted wrenches, he found absolution. He drives because a moving car is the only place where the question can't sit down next to him.
He may still be the first to leave. But every shift of that heavy manual gear is no longer an escape. It's a quiet handshake with the past,
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