Off Restriction: the walk to the NA meeting with Kate Gompert

pivotal · 14 Nov YDAU, ~2200h

• When: 14 Nov YDAU, Saturday, a little after 2200h, on Prospect St. just south of Inman Square, Cambridge
• What: Ruth's three-day new-resident House Restriction ends, and she is now allowed to hit meetings outside Enfield if escorted by a senior resident Staff judges safe. The psychotically depressed, four-nights-unslept Kate Gompert draws the duty, walking her to a late NA meeting near Inman Square. Ruth hails from Braintree on the South Shore, is many kilos underweight, wears brass-colored lipstick, and has dry teased big hair; her face carries "the late-stage Ice [n.284] addict's concave long-jawed insectile look." She "yammer[s] nonstop" into Kate's right ear the whole hike — an experience Kate finds "excruciating." Some Latino males sexually check her out as she passes: even underweight, dry-haired and haggish, her manner and attire "broadcast that she's all about sexuality and sex."