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People Feel Vulnerable When They Travel. Nobody Wants To Be Taken Advantage Of Or Talked Into Something They Don't Want. Staying At Motel 6 Makes You Feel Smarter. In Fact, I Think It Actually Means You Are Smarter, But I Have No Hard Data To Support That.

In School, You're Taught A Lesson And Then Given A Test. In Life, You're Given A Test That Teaches You A Lesson.

Mine Is Not A Story To Tell Struggling Writers.

It's Not Like Alaska Isn't Wilderness - It Mostly Is. But Most Alaskans Don't Live In The Wild. They Live On The Edge Of The Wild In Towns With Schools And Cable Tv And Stores And Dentists And Roller Rinks Sometimes. It's Just Like Anyplace Else, Only With Mountains And Moose.

Professor Al Drake Encouraged Me To Just Write The Way I Talk. I Decided If That's What I Needed To Do, I Didn't Need To Be In School To Do It.