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Creamed corn from Al Campo, a rustic bistro and wine garden.
Stacy Sodolak for The New York Times

When you leave Marfa, it’s a deep dive into the rural framework of Texas. Back to

the grasses and the yucca. The uninterrupted sky. A whole lot of space to fill. And
what a sky it was! It had been so fickle, now finally we saw glimmers of bright
blue patches above the long dark ribbon of a road ahead. Look at that road! With

nothing on it!

“This would be a good time to stand in the middle of the road,” Beth said. And she

was the family therapist. The reasonable one! It was a spur of the moment
suggestion. No reasoning behind it. We might be getting older, but in Texas, in the

desert, you can still pull over, jump in the middle of the road and not a soul will
know about it.

We hopped out of the car and screamed our heads off, drunk with all of the space.
And it was exhilarating! When my kids were little, I told them not to run into the
street about 100 times. (Maybe more?) Here we were, four women in our mid-

40s. It went against all of our instincts as responsible adults, and we let those
instincts go into the wind that night.

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