…stuck in her daydream 
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Trains and Travelers
Last July, Beth Topczewski, ’12, packed a few essentials—a sleeping bag, clothes, Pop-Tarts—into her 2000 Toyota Corolla and hit the road. With the help of a $900 research grant from the Dean’s Fund for Student Life, she spent the next two months on the move, traveling from Chicago to California, with stops in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. Sometimes Topczewski stayed at a motel, but more often slept outdoors in national parks or in the graffiti-covered, litter-strewn encampments that provide refuge for the subjects of her research: train hoppers, the contemporary version of Depression-era hobos who illegally traversed America via railroad. (Keep reading here…)
“Sometimes this worlds too much to take, so your eyes snap shut, &your heart… it breaks.”
I still can’t look at this without crying. 

“Say the words I can not say, say them on another day, fragile words like these will cut your toung.
Was I good enough was I bad enough when you wanted more I had had enough.”