Sarah Datok

THE BEST THING

1967 As 17 year old Leda stood in the humid air, waiting for the bus that was going to change her life forever, she felt a number of things. She felt uncomfortable, of course, the weather and the stickiness of her once crisp, white shirt dress against her skin would do that. She felt no small amount of trepidation, which was completely normal in the circumstances, she thought. She had never been to a big city, nevermind a city on her own, without her mother.