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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , 59 2 : American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry , 26 10 : Media Center Navigation Media Center. As the story begins, seventeen-year-old Lena lives in Portland, Maine, which, like all other US cities, is surrounded by guards and electric fences to bar passage. No one is ever allowed in and no one is ever allowed out.

Lena is waiting for her birthday, when she will be given a procedure that will remove all of her pain. The procedure will actually prevent her from ever falling in love. In this world, falling in love is considered a disease. Before they are cured, Lena and Hana, her best friend, plan to spend the summer together.

At 51st and Lexington he trotted up and down the entrances to the Subway. Down the stairs, up the other side, across the road, down the stairs, up the other side, across the road ….

An endless, circular, pointless march. So I followed him, now there were two of us rising above and falling below the streets of NYC. He always avoided eye contact with anyone who stood in his way and waited patiently, almost apologetically, giving them the right of way until he could continue the quest that only he could understand.

Blank faced and dead eyed. His skin looked burnt, like a charred pepper, it was years of accumulated filth and grime ingrained from sleeping in the doorways and back alleys of the city. I can only imagine his story, the road he has traveled that brings him to this point in his life, I have a feeling that just scanning the highlights of it would give most of us a few sleepless nights.

So tired and weary, his head tilted down depicts total desolation and despair for me. A hopelessness that mirrors his awkward limbs and the tight grip on the handrail that stops him falling, although I fear that falling is something close to familiar in his world. I left him to continue his compulsive journey wondering at what point he gives up and moves somewhere else, if indeed he does.

This could be it, the perpetual circle he travels every waking moment of every day.