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I was able to read a few more stories from “ Lost in the City” today but I chose “ An Orange Line Train to Ballston” from those I read. It’s a very short story at only ten pages and takes place over a period of a few months in the lives of the characters, mostly on the subway (or Metro if I’m being completely accurate). Marvella “Velle” Watkins is a single mother with three young children, Avis, Marvin, and Marcus. One day, she encounters a good-looking man with the dreadlocks on the train as her kids become intrigued by his hairstyle. Marcus asks him, “ Why you got your hair like that?” and Avis adds, “ You don’t have no comb or nothin?” He plays along and engages Velle’s kids in conversation although the conversation doesn’t carry over to their mother.

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Velle begins searching the man out on the train by arriving at the time she thinks she’s most likely to find him. East West Quantum Leap Gypsy Full Download. She lets a blue line train pass by even though it will take them to their stop in case the man with the dreadlocks only takes the orange line.

One Sunday morning, Velle packs up the kids into the car and drives around where she thinks she might find the man with the dreadlocks “ on the pretense that they would go exploring“. Turning on the car’s engine, she realized how she must look – on a beautiful day, she was dragging her kids along to look for a man she did not know, whom she could well come across strolling hand-in-hand with some other woman, who would probably also be arrayed in dreadlocks. Dreadlock man is nowhere to be seen.

Jones writes, “ But, as if to punish her, God did to produce the dreadlock man.” At the end of the story, Velle unleashes her frustration and loneliness on her son Marvin after another fruitless search on the train for the man with dreadlocks. Open Door Browser Free Download For Windows 8 here. After some minor misbehavior on the train and his questioning why they had to let the blue line pass and take the orange line, Velle screams at him that, “ I’m the boss around here and you seem to be forgetting that”, and then tells Marcus to shut up. The romantic tension of the story comes to a crashing halt as the story ends.