Trisha dreams that she is in the woods again with Tom Gordon. He stands next to a post with an iron ring bolt, flicking it back and forth with his finger. Trisha remembers that she's already had this dream, but when she looks back at Tom, she realizes the dream is slightly different this time. Instead of his away jersey, Tom now wears his home uniform. The road trip is over. She tells him she closed, and he tells her he knows, and that she did a good job. She asks him how much of it was real, and he tells her everything. Trisha hears her mother's voice call her name, wondering what her mother is doing out in the woods.
Another woman, a stranger, responds to her mother, telling her that Trisha can't.....
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