she relaxed and rolled her eyes , settling back into her seat . you wipe it away , so that for these precious moments , i 'm a clean slate and the only thing written there is your name . '' it 's not in that great an area of town . it was a connection that ran deeper than anything she had ever felt with her own family . why did he all of a sudden want all of the things he 'd spent most of his adult life trying to avoid ? 