We are all somewhere else, during.

“I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for peop…”

“These, of course, are not the preppy boys we go to school with; these are the d…”

“Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all …”

“He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a…”