Train Ride
I boarded the train in the middle of the night, the only person to do so at my stop. The conductor guided me toward what looked like the only empty seat in a carload of sleeping people. The woman in the window seat appeared to be sound asleep, so I tried to be as quiet as possible as I put my suitcase in the overhead rack.While I was putting my luggage up, I looked around at everyone, especially at the woman who I would be sitting beside for the next 12 hours or more. We were in the last...