![]() ![]() A world that measured two feet wide and 2,663 miles long. A world I thought would both make me into the woman I knew I could become and turn me back into the girl I'd once been. It was a world I'd never been to and yet had known was there all along, one I'd staggered to in sorrow and confusion and fear and hope. I lifted it high and threw it with all my might and watched it fall into the lush trees and out of my life.īy clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. ![]() It was a big lug of a thing, of genuine heft, a brown leather Raichle boot with a red lace and silver metal fasts. It is useless, an orphan forevermore, and I could take no mercy on it. What is one boot without the other boot? It is nothing. I clutched its mate to my chest like a baby, though of course it was futile. But that doesn't mean I wasn't shocked when it did. I let out a stunned gasp, though I'd been in the wilderness thirty-eight days and by then I'd come to know that anything could happen and that everything would. It bounced off a rocky outcropping several feet beneath me before disappearing into the forest canopy below, impossible to retrieve. ![]() Moments before, I'd removed my hiking boots and the left one had fallen into those trees, first catapulting into the air when my enormous backpack toppled onto it, then skittering across the gravelly trail and flying over the edge. ![]() The trees were tall, but I was taller, standing above them on a steep mountain slope in northern California. ![]()
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