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I like to do after a hard day's work.

You like licorice?

Oh, thanks.

Come on.

Come on, Jane!

All right, you got to promise

that you're not gonna tell my wife,

because she hates it when I eat candy.

Okay.

What, you just gonna stand there?

Oh, um, hold on, sweetheart.

No offense, but...

Thank you.

Well, you just gonna look at it or...

Thank you.

Good meal.

So, your husband,

the two of you meet in college?

- Your husband.

- Oh, Paul?

- Yeah.

- Yes.

Yeah.

Well, he must be crazy.

It's one thing for a man

to take off on a hike like that,

but to allow your wife to do it?

Whole other thing entirely.

Not everyone in the world

thinks like you do, Frank.

Nope, that's why everything

is so messed up.

Paul and I kind of do our own thing.

Don't you get any ideas.

How could I possibly?

You gonna take off with her?

You have an extra tent?

You'd be yelling for me

to come get you before you got

to the end of the driveway.

This is really good.

Baby, baby, be my friend

So, what does this tattoo

mean to you guys, anyways?

Well, we both just really dig horses.

We're getting divorced today

and we thought we should do something

that bonded us together.

Oh.

Okay.

It hasn't occurred to you guys that it might

be easier just to stay married?

- Cheaper, too.

- Mmm.

At least we probably won't regret it.

Couples don't necessarily stay married,

but they tend to stay divorced.

You get a lot of people asking you

about removing tattoos?

Well, sometimes.

I cheated on him.

It happens.

She seems sorry.

I am sorry.

Cheryl, come on, can we just...

Come on, man, wipe the slate clean.

Uh, it's quite a big slate.

I cheated on him a lot of times.

Is that right? "Stryed"?

Uh, no, it's "strayed."

Like a stray dog.

The form asked me what my new

last name would be. I...

I looked it up.

It just sounded right.

You're all set.

You're going to have

to mail them yourselves.

It's been a wonderful

and crazy seven years.

Goodbye,

Cheryl Strayed.

Got what you needed?

Yes.

Now I don't have to eat

cold mush anymore.

I can eat hot mush.

There's no husband, is there?

No. I mean, there was,

but he's in Minneapolis, not on the PCT.

I said that 'cause I was scared of you.

Yeah, I knew that.

Can't say I blame you.

Do you ever think about quitting?

Oh, only once every two minutes or so.

Everything hurts. All the time.

- You think I should quit?

- Yes, I do.

Don't listen to me.

Hell, I've quit a bunch of stuff.

Quit jobs, quit marriages.

I'd have quit that hike

after the first day.

You regret any of them?

I didn't have a choice.

I just couldn't do them no more.

Never been a time

when there was a fork in my road.

Yeah.

That's about the size of it.

Be careful.

- All right.

- Nice meeting you.

Nice meeting you. Thank you, Frank!

Yes!

Okay.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God!

You're doing good, Strayed.

Five to seven miles a day.

At this rate,

you'll be finished in about 20 years.

I'm not hungry.

I don't miss food.

I don't miss tacos, chips and guac.

I don't miss Minneapolis snow,

that's for sure.

I don't miss margaritas.

I'd kill a snake for a sip.

It's not like I'm some junkie.

I'm in control.

Yeah, like everyone is with drugs?

- I'm an experimentalist.

- Mmm.

I'm the girl who says yes instead of no.

Uh, hi!

Cheryl Strayed?

Oh, yeah, hi!

I... Do I know you?

I... I saw your name

in the trail register.

You're the only woman in there.

Right.

I'm Greg!

Nice to meet you!

I'm coming down.

Oh, great!

Sorry. I wasn't expecting any visitors.

So how many miles a day are you doing?

I'm averaging 22 at the moment.

You'll be in Kennedy Meadows

by tomorrow?

Hope so.

I'm only managing about...

11 or 12.

Uh, well, the first couple of weeks

are always hard.

And you do all that preparation

and training,

and nothing prepares you

for the pain and the heat.

Yeah, we picked the wrong year, though.

You, uh... bypassing the Sierra?

Sure.

I'll bypass anything. Should I?

Oh, it's completely socked in.

Biggest snowfall in a decade or so.

Yeah, nobody's getting through that.

Say, uh...

how 'bout we make a plan

up in Kennedy Meadows?

I'm... I'm staying there

for a few days to rest up.

Yeah.

Thanks.

Let's make a plan. I...

Think that'd be good for me.

Great.

I think I'm pregnant.

What?

Who's the father?

I don't know.

I mean...

I think I have an idea.

You have an idea?

Are you f***ing kidding me?

What are you doing to yourself?

Can we have the check, please?

Sh*t. Pregnancy test and a shovel.

You're going to do this in front of me,

and if you're pregnant,

we're gonna pay visit to your "idea"

and make a plan.

Next please!

Give me a reason to love you

This is the beginning

Of forever and ever

It's time to move over

It's all I want to be

Give me a reason to love you

Give me a reason to be

A woman

I just wanna be a woman

There's no plan to make.

I'm not gonna have this baby.

I don't know when I became

such a piece of sh*t.

I was strong...

Responsible.

I wanted things in life.

I was good, you know?

I ruined my marriage,

and now I'm ruining the rest of my life.

I gotta go back to that store.

I'm gonna walk myself back to the woman

my mother thought I was.

I'm gonna put myself

in the way of beauty.

What the hell are you talking about?

In the way

of another f***ing giant rock.

Maybe your other girlfriends

Couldn't pass the test

Come on, Bruce. Sing with me.

Well, if you're rough and ready for love

Honey, I'm tougher than...

The rest

Hey, there.

There she is!

Hey!

- You made it!

- I made it!

Okay, guys?

This is Cheryl.

And Monster.

"Monster"?

My pack?

Oh, man.

Okay,

what can I get you?

Snapple. I've been dreaming

of Snapple Lemonade.

And potato chips.

Any kind of potato chips.

- Any kind?

- Thank you.

- I have cash.

- No, no, no! My treat.

Ah, thank you.

Seriously, you have no Snapple

in that pack?

I wish!

Stay.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

I wish I'd gotten applause

like that when I walked in.

Okay! I know they said

don't feed the animals,

but I figured this would be

a special occasion.

One Snapple and chips.

Ah! That's perfect.

When you're done here, Ed over there

will cook you dinner

down at the campsite.

That would be amazing.

Thank you.

Ed is amazing. We call him Amazing Ed.

Sweetheart.

If you're reading this,

then you've walked 100 miles

through the Mojave Desert.

Whatever else has happened between us,

however angry we are,

or were, at each other,

I am so proud of you and in awe of you.

Or, I will be, once you've done it.

As I write, you've only just left,

so actually,

you've done almost nothing at all.

Like me!

So we can still be friends.

Minneapolis misses you.

Hey, Cheryl!

- Come and get it!

- Okay, great!

So you're not a hiker?

Not like you.

I just come up here every summer

to hang out with the real hikers.

You fascinate me.

I'm not a real hiker.

You just hiked 100 miles

through the desert heat.

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