"Sounds like someone was trying to get you into trouble," he tells her with a grin. "Or maybe it wasn't as fragile as you were afraid of? Anyway, the photos are definitely worth it."

He turns through the last couple pages happily and sighs. "Maybe I'll get to travel some day. You think? I've never been outside the state."

And mostly only outside the city for short field trips and occasional apple-picking with the church he used to go to, when he was young.