She validates her story by returning back to the sites of each scene, particularly of that one incident when a body of a young women was pulled from a truck stop dumpster while Veselka’s sitting at a nearby truck somewhere near Martinsburg Pennsylvania, “I remember it could be me, since I was also a teenage hitchhiker” (Veselka38). Interestingly, no one seems to remember about the event. Her dad’s confirmation of the existence of the Martinsburg truck stop is a relief. She says, “My body relaxed, my memory may have been bent by sleep deprivation, but I was not crazy. There was a Martinsburg truck stop somewhere in my story, and there was a dead seventeen-year old hitchhiker and if it happened, she could be found. It was just a matter of looking harder”(45). Veselka’s willpower invites the readers to follow her in investigating the death of the
She validates her story by returning back to the sites of each scene, particularly of that one incident when a body of a young women was pulled from a truck stop dumpster while Veselka’s sitting at a nearby truck somewhere near Martinsburg Pennsylvania, “I remember it could be me, since I was also a teenage hitchhiker” (Veselka38). Interestingly, no one seems to remember about the event. Her dad’s confirmation of the existence of the Martinsburg truck stop is a relief. She says, “My body relaxed, my memory may have been bent by sleep deprivation, but I was not crazy. There was a Martinsburg truck stop somewhere in my story, and there was a dead seventeen-year old hitchhiker and if it happened, she could be found. It was just a matter of looking harder”(45). Veselka’s willpower invites the readers to follow her in investigating the death of the