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After Lester joins the trek, Rodeo continues to drive, and Lester sits on the couch with Coyote. She pesters him until he tells her all about his girlfriend Tammy, who left him because he was a member of a band and refused to get a regular job. He decided he loves her more than he loves the band, and thus is finding his way to Boise, Idaho.
Coyote says that she knows a lot about love and asks him what about Tammy makes him love her so much. After he describes Tammy’s wonderful laugh and how much he loves her, Lester asks Coyote how she got to be so wise. She confides to him that her mother taught her these realities about love. Her mother made the three sisters write to each other what they especially loved about the other ones. She explains that her mother and sisters are dead. Lester asks what her sisters wrote to her about what they loved in her. Coyote says she doesn’t know because the love letters are buried in a box.
When they stop to get gas for the bus in Gainesville, Florida, Lester and Rodeo begin to argue about whether phones are more useful than maps for navigating.
By Dan Gemeinhart
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