title: You Can Take The Girl Out of Chicago . . .: Tales of My Wayward Youth
author:  Dorothy Sinclair 
description: Dorothy Sinclair, a Los Angeles actress, holds a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters in Theatre Arts from UCLA. In addition to a stage and television career, she has been Public Relations Coordinator for the William Morris Agency and a book critic for "The West Coast Review of Books" She and her dachshund make their home in Westwood, California.
zlib_text: The Headmaster
  
  By Tiffany Reisz
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedicated to beautiful magical North Carolina and the beautiful magical people
  who live there.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  She’d never make it to Chicago alive.
  
  Not unless she got some coffee. Stat.
  
  Bone-weary from driving, Gwen pulled over and parked in front of a small diner
  at the edge of tiny Andover. The August air felt heavy with the heat, and when
  she inhaled she caught the scent of the nearby Appalachian Mountains in her
  nose. Everything smelled so warm, moist and alive—the rich, dark soil, the
  beech and maple trees, the leaves taking their last breath of summer… So much
  life and beauty around her, and yet Gwen wasn’t part of it.
  
  She took her phone out of her messenger bag and snapped a quick picture of the
  mountains that rose up behind the town. Gwen stepped inside the diner and
  fifty years into the past. It looked like it had been plucked from 1960—or at
  least a sanitized version of 1960—with the chrome stools that sat belly-up to
  a white-