“I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.”
“Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.”
“When I first came to Canada, I thought it was going to be easy to be a Canadian; like so many stupid Americans, I pictured Canada as simply some northern, colder, possibly more provincial region of the United States-I imagined it would be like moving to Maine, or Minnesota.”
“Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way otherthan just getting older.”
“There are a lot of places," I reply, "that I thought I'd never go.”