“Holy Helicopter Parenting, Mom.” “How was your date with that boy?”
“Which boy? There are so many. I have a spreadsheet just to keep track of them.”
To kill time that morning, I went through Noah’s file of entries from his dad’s notes app.
It was a long, seemingly random list—everything from book titles to quotes.
Over time, markets will always seek to become more free. Experiential value. Floor five Stairway one Disgrace—Coetzee
It went on like that for pages, just little memos to himself that were inscrutable to anyone else.
But the last four notes in the documents interested me: Maldives, Kosovo, Cambodia,
Never Tell Our Business to Strangers, Unless you leave a leg behind, The jogger’s mouth
It was impossible to know when those notes had been written, and whether they’d all been written at once, but they certainly seemed connected:
A quick search told me that Kosovo, Cambodia, and the Maldives were all nations that had no extradition treaty with the United States,
meaning that Pickett might be allowed to stay in them without having to face criminal charges at home.
Never Tell Our Business to Strangers was a memoir by a woman whose father lived on the run from the law.
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