Present: Elaine is lying on a futon thinking of her life in the present. She is middle-aged and feels she has not accomplished all that a person is supposed to at that age. She hates the city she has come back to and always has. In the past, it was appropriate for people to say that Toronto is dull. Now people say Toronto changed to a world-class city. Elaine doesn't think Toronto was ever dull for her and she doesn't believe it's changed. She reveals there was some misery in her past. In her dreams of Toronto, she is always lost. Elaine describes the city's buildings with terms such as malicious and vindictive. She doesn't feel like an adult, but like an adult in disguise. She lives in a house in British Columbia.....
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