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because her mother is marrying again –and again, and again – Her attendance at school is under seventy per cent but nobody’s too worried because her grades are as high as they can be in primary school. \n\nBy the time she is [[eight:|Eight]]
not that she wants it to. She hates it at first but she doesn’t really get a choice in the matter. Her parents, two people who work just a few too many hours, [[split up|Split]]
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She remarries. He doesn’t. It’s just to a friend who’s away even more than she is and they figure sharing an apartment will at least give them something to come home to. When they do crash into each other – on a plane as often as in their house – they crack open a bottle of wine and recount all their newest tales. They do a proper shotgun wedding, although with no baby involved, and head straight to Vegas for the celebration. They pick up Asuka on the way, who is fifteen by now and does not appreciate the [[gesture|Gesture]].
her parents have given up on having a member of staff supervise her journey. They trust her. She knows that she should sit two thirds of the way down the bus to get a double seat to herself and that she should bring her own sandwiches because her pocket money won’t cover train food.\n\nBy the time she is [[eleven:|Eleven]]\n\n\n\n
she still hasn't made it back to him. She’s three hours down the motorway and crowning by the time he crashes through the doors. They decide on Abigail for a name, after his grandmother. She says it’s beautiful and then sneaks off to register her daughter as Asuka, he’s not even mad; He has a beautiful daughter and a wife who’s promised to stay home more now that the baby’s been born.\n\nBy the time she's [[twenty-two:|Twenty-Two]]
It works well for a few years. It works really well. He has to work so hard to pass his exams that he simply doesn’t have time to be with her every day so her visits are a great exciting event for both of them. She manages to get a job working for one of the travel companies through sheer persistence more than anything else. Her routes expand wildly to include all of Europe. \n\nBy the time she is [[nineteen:|Nineteen]] \n
she’s pregnant, but that’s okay. She’s not just another statistic about teen pregnancy, she’s happily married, even if she doesn’t live with her husband thirty weeks of the year. Her biggest worry is her job but they think it’s a fantastic new angle for her to write from. Her books “Travelling while Pregnant” and “Travelling with a New-born” are informative if not hugely imaginative. \n\nBy the time she gives [[birth:|Birth]]
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they get a postcard. It’s not like hers were – although a few of those still show up from time to time. There’s no cursive, no fun facts, no little trinkets that’ll break the moment one of the kids touches them. Just three words. [[Three words in bold, angry capitals:|BURIED AT SEA]]
they get a divorce. Like her parents, it’s nothing dramatic, they both feel like they’re making the other unhappy and they love each other far too much for that. She leaves a note on the table to say “Maybe it’s for the best if I don’t love you anymore.” It doesn’t work. They’re both still smitten. She sends letters often, always with some trinket or factoid for her daughter. At twelve Asuka can tie a Sari and bless an infant in Hebrew.\n\nBy the time she is [[thirty-four:|Thirty-Four]]
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She gets older. Her joints start to ache and her bones creak. She sees her daughter get married and have her own kids. The father is nice enough, she thinks, but a little lacking in personality. Of course she takes none of this as a signal to slow down. The grandkids get the same treatment as her daughter, with exciting parcels arriving from all around the world in handwriting they have to get their mother to read for them.\n\nSlowly, so slowly, walks turn into drives and flights fall into cruises.\n\nBy the time she is [[fifty:|Fifty]]
she spends all of her money on a coat from the charity shop. It’s too big and it’s so crumpled that she looks like a body bag lying on the seats of the coach but she doesn’t care because it’s comfy and warm and she’s just getting the hang of sleeping on transport. It’s around now that she starts spending more time visiting friends than family, before long she’ll be more comfortable sleeping on sofas than on beds.\n\nBy the time she is [[fifteen:|Fifteen]]
they have to go to Gretna Green to do it, but that’s okay because the train is the most appropriate wedding car she could have chosen. He hates it. He’s travel sick and faintly green the whole way up but he tries not to care because she’s so [[happy|For A Few Years]]:
She marries twice in her life, she falls in love once. He’s reassuringly solid with sandy brown hair and well-bitten fingernails. They’re both on the bus heading towards London, he has an interview for veterinary school but he’s not sure if he wants to go because it’s so far away and he loves his home. They get chatting and something just clicks, it’s the shortest eight hour coach journey she’s ever taken. His floor and then his bed become regular fixtures on her rotation and she’s never been happier. She gets adorable and twinkly whenever she’s on her way to him and sulks all the way out. He finds a course half an hour from his house and they marry three weeks before he’s due to start. \n\nBy the time is [[married|Seventeen]]:
The Traveller\n\n[[It starts young|Young]]
she has a growth spurt and someone runs an iron over the coat, it suddenly looks dashing rather than sad but it’s still the magic trick for her when it comes to sleeping on the move. Her attendance at school isn’t even worth talking about but she manages to scrape through her exams and drop out. She moves out of her dad’s not long after and just couch surfs wherever she can. She knows all the drivers by name now and they give her mate’s rates so she can get by. She flits through temporary jobs, discovering a talent for chopping vegetables and a hatred for picking flowers but at least she picks up a handful of Romanian on that [[one|Love]].\n\n
when it happens. A stroke: nothing dramatic, nothing painful. At least, not for her. She just collapses halfway across the Pacific and there’s not a lot the ship’s doctor can do for her. She leaves everything to her daughter, to no-one’s surprise. Asuka’s dad sends her husband a letter, it’s full of condolences and apologies and a burning desire to visit her grave.\n\nBy the time [[three months have passed:|Postcard]]
<<timedreplace 5s >> \nHe must have been [[upset too|Anger]]. \n<<endtimedreplace>>
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Angrier than he’s ever been. His hair has more grey than brown now but nails are still chewed and ragged and he is angry.\n\nIt should feel appropriate, he supposes, that she will always be travelling, always on the move. But it doesn’t. It just hurts. \n\n<<timedreplace 8s >>\nHe doesn’t want her buried at sea, he doesn’t want her always moving. He wants her by his side, watching Casualty and eating too many biscuits. And if he can’t have that he wants to be a regular stop on her whirlwind tour of the world, he wants her sitting in his kitchen waving her hands while she tells him how they say hello in [[Alaska|Home]].\n\n<<endtimedreplace>>
Phoenicia Rogerson\n\n