Man, I used to want to go to New York so bad when I was a kid. One time in high school, some friends wanted to go on a road trip down there and I wanted so badly to go... Dad nearly went into cardiac arrest at the very idea, though.

_{[Back then, she hadn't known why he was so opposed to it. Now that she knew... things, it made much more sense. She'd been full of fifteen-year-old-rage at the time though...]}