There were times when people could have gone either way. Either back to homelessness and addiction or forward. She would say just a comforting word, give you a hug, no matter what you looked like.

But if you know how to put the ball in the basket, you can do it anywhere.

We're working along with the town to make Lake Park a better place for the residents.

There was one time when I was on a (fast) break and their guy just tackled me. He just grabbed my by the waist and tackled me, like football.

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.