It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

In the same year Ford was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story for outstanding achievement in that genre. Having enrolled to study hotel management he switched to English.

Richard Ford (born February 16 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer.