IT'S A SEVEN HOUR DRIVE FROM Miami, Florida to Tallahassee, Florida. It is a long peninsular state and, these days, the available highways are high-speed, divided, long distance bores with minimum reasons to slow down except for rest stops or gas stations. Of all the states that I have traveled through, Florida may be the most boring, as its highest point is only a couple of hundred feet above sea level. As for the sea that surrounds the state, the coastal roads are the most attractive, for at least there's a view of something other than orange groves or scrub oak. Long before these current major highways worked their way up and down the state, I used to make the drive back and forth on two-lane blue roads between Miami, where I worked, and Tallahassee, where my first wife lived, back in the late Sixties. I say my first wife; she is still my wife, as I've never had another. She had made it obvious to me, back then when we first encountered each other at the university, that there was something there which I ought not resist. I came to understand what F. Scott Fitzgerald meant when he wrote, in ‘The Great Gatsby,' that her thoughts “concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” So that long drive was always worth the time and the distance and, after a while, I stuffed everything that I owned into that little two-seat MGB and made the drive for the final time. I obviously didn't own much, but I had found a treasure and, having uncovered it in my clumsy but determined fashion, decided to cling to it.
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