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During a brief stopover, the students purchase headache
pills. The elderly lady offers the elderly man her seat by the
window.
“I always used to travel this distance by car and had no
chance to see this world up close,” says the veteran and
upon seeing pigs in a spacious pen, he sighs, “All these pigs
will be sold together with their hooves.”
“Except the noise they make,” says the woman. After a
moment, excited she points to something outside the
window. “Look!” she hails out loud. Over a valley of
Pennsylvania, the sky, as if torn by flames of fire, cries out
in red, yellow and orange.
The students raise their heads and instantly return to their
digital activities. The faces of the elders are enflamed with
ecstasy. The veteran squeezes the wrist of the lady, he
swings her arm. Yet looking at the other passengers, they
soon feel embarrassed, as if enchantment by the sunset was
uncool or too old-fashioned.