and if she could just get to bagdogra where the airport was , then she could get on an airplane and fly far , far away to a place where eleven-year-old children didnt have to be scared when their mother got a cold , and girls didnt have to plead to get admitted to classes for men only , and high school juniors from texas didnt have to cough up their entire allowance just to keep a roommate from getting taken out of school by evil uncles .