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Next door lived Lucy Crook, an old lady in an even older house surrounded by craggy plum trees. Plums would fall on the ground and rot there, making a wonderful smell of purple earth ferment that stained the air of our street.

— Jan Kerouac Baby Driver: A Story About Myself (1981)

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She spoke perfect English, but with a lovely curved and full-mouthed tropical density that parted the atmosphere into octagons.

Baby Driver: A Story About Myself (1981)

Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue. I sat in the window of our thatched house in Yelapa, not even a dot on the map below Puerto Vallarta, staring out through puffs of tiny afternoon flies.

Baby Driver: A Story About Myself (1981)

I read [On the Road] all in one night instead of ringing for a Seconal. And I was happy to know that my father’s thought patterns were so similar to mine. Also, now that I had a picture of what he’d been doing all this time, all over the country, it made more sense that he hadn’t had the time to be fatherly.

Baby Driver: A Story About Myself (1981)

Sometimes I did things for no reason whatsoever except that they were there to do, and it went no further. I drifted into scenes through an open door and happened to stumble through, staying until I leaked out. I had no goals, so I stabbed in the dark figuring I'd strike something solid sooner or later if I didn't die in the process.

Baby Driver: A Story About Myself (1981)

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