<p>Hi Laura.</p><p>Glad you liked The Corners. Thanks again for your help. Re the Vietnamese women, perhaps I should refer to them as Asian women? If you’d like to tackle that sentence, be my guest.  Maybe different parts of the country have different representations.</p><p>This piece (Hang on to Your Nuts) is by the Scranton kid, just after he gets picked-up as a hitchhiker in “Rules of the Road,” and meets up with the doodle-girl (Geronimo’s girl). Instead of having the girl leave Bernie’s after the Scranton kid, and appearing just as he is about to get into  the car (Rules of the Road), I have her leaving Bernie’s first and ending up ahead of the Scranton Kid where the driver and the kid come upon her hitchhiking alone. When you read this piece, her leaving first and by herself fits her personality. I had no idea who this girl was when I started the piece. She ended up taking over the scene. Sometimes, I feel like an observer. Let me know what you think.</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Dan</p>