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It was a tearful afternoon the day that Anna left her home in Smalltown, Massachusetts for the big city. Tearful for her friends and family, at least, so Anna was careful to keep the excitement out of her voice until after she'd left. She had n't even told her mother that all her savings from her waitressing job had left her barely enough to afford a tiny studio apartment in the outskirts. It would just needlessly worry her. 
 
 She was still 30 minutes away from the apartment when the traffic started picking up. She jumped when the first asshat swerved in front of her, blaring his horn while he flipped her off. The adrenaline pulsed through her, so she flipped on the radio to calm her nerves. All her presets came up as static... Of course they would. She hit the scan button, listening to 10 second clips of strange voices cycle through her speakers. She thought she heard something about a busy highway, but she was in no rush. With her car packed to the gills with personal belongings, it was no time to go getting lost. 
 
 Staring at the same bumper for going on an hour, she silently cursed her earlier self. The sun was hot and the air smelled of gas and asphalt. She cranked up her air conditioning, knowing full well that she'd never gotten it properly fixed last summer. The sea of shiny metal before her seemed to go on forever. 
 
 She finally pulled up to the apartment building just as the sun was setting. She pulled up out front and darted in quickly to talk to the front desk. She was exhausted, tired, and sweaty... but that all melted off her when she saw her new roommate walk out of the elevator to meet her.
