David Senra

And so then we get the first inclination that he's got some deep unresolved trauma and just trouble in his mind.

Because he's pursuing this dream, but he would constantly go back to this little town of Freehold, New Jersey.

And he's going to do this for decades.

And he would drive his car.

He would never get out of his car, but he would drive his car late at night by himself through his old town.

Keep in mind, the book is called Born to Run.

He's trying to outrun his problems.

He does this for decades until he can't anymore.

That's what the movie is about.

That's what the last half of this book is about.

He says, I would drive as if the miles themselves could repair the damage done.

Write a different story.

Force these streets to give up their heavily guarded secrets.

They couldn't.

Only I could do that, and I was a long way from being ready.

I would spend my life on the road, logging hundreds of thousands of miles, and my story was always the same.

Man comes to town, detonates.

Man leaves town and drives off into the evening.

Fade to black, just the way I liked it.

And it takes him a very long time to realize that he had been lying to himself.