The Devil's Own Rag Doll
“He took the car through a nonsense route of side streets and back alleys that left me wondering at times where we were. I gripped the top of the door with my good hand to hold myself steady.
I couldn’t get a handle on the numbers, but it seemed like there were too many people in the city, especially with so many men off to the war. Detroit was a big magnet, sucking people up from all over. Though I had lived in the city my whole life, and though I had been thrilled to see the great skyscrapers come up in the twenties and all the other changes, I thought that the city had become too big to keep track of. As a child, I had roamed all over, thumbing rides or hitching on the streetcars, and I felt like I belonged anywhere Bobby went, except on the property of the old auto barons. You always knew where there was too much money and where they wouldn’t let you just walk around free. I thought I knew every corner of the city. Maybe it was Bobby’s careless driving, circling, speeding up and sl...owing down, but I looked out now at the streets that had become strange and wondered how I had lost even my feeling of home.MoreLess
I couldn’t get a handle on the numbers, but it seemed like there were too many people in the city, especially with so many men off to the war. Detroit was a big magnet, sucking people up from all over. Though I had lived in the city my whole life, and though I had been thrilled to see the great skyscrapers come up in the twenties and all the other changes, I thought that the city had become too big to keep track of. As a child, I had roamed all over, thumbing rides or hitching on the streetcars, and I felt like I belonged anywhere Bobby went, except on the property of the old auto barons. You always knew where there was too much money and where they wouldn’t let you just walk around free. I thought I knew every corner of the city. Maybe it was Bobby’s careless driving, circling, speeding up and sl...owing down, but I looked out now at the streets that had become strange and wondered how I had lost even my feeling of home.MoreLess
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