Summary

The next section is titled Ashland, Ohio, and Mim notes they have 61 miles to go. Chapter 33 is titled “Peach Gummies.” It opens with a letter dated the evening of Sept. 4. She says she has learned that some people are meant to serve as examples of what she should not do. She ends by signing the letter, “Mary Iris Malone, Aspiring Idiot.” Walt compliments Mim on her journal, which is cheap and not holding up well. They are stopped for gas and Mim goes inside to get drinks and pay for the gas. She gets a bag of peach gummies as well and the cost just about wipes out the remainder of her money. She sees a flyer with her photo. Barry had insisted she wear a green turtleneck for school photos the previous year and Mim hates that picture. That was...