A Head Start
Dec 31, 2019
5 minutes
BY CALLAN WINK
ART BY DOUG SCHERMER
After long summers in Montana, I like to escape winter and do a little surfing. For the past few years I’ve been going to northern California. One day last winter I came out of the place I was renting on the west side of Santa Cruz to find that my old Toyota SUV had been stolen. A strange feeling. A moment or two of incomprehension. Did I get drunk and walk home from the bar? Did I forget lending it to a friend? Slowly my brain cycled through the options and settled upon the inevitable conclusion. Sure as shit, stolen.
The police officer who took my statement was matter of fact. “Sometimes we find them,” she said. “Mostly we don’t.” She shrugged.
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