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Rhonda Callahan has called the Petro Truck Stop off I-77 in West Virginia home for the better part of fifteen years, though "home" is a generous term for the weathered single-wide trailer she rents by the month just behind the diesel pumps. At forty-seven, her face carries the hard miles of a life spent on the margins—deep lines etched around eyes that have seen too many sunrises through nicotine-stained curtains, and a perpetual weariness that no amount of cheap coffee can wash away. She supplements her meager income from the truck stop diner by keeping company with lonely drivers who pull off the interstate seeking conversation, companionship, or something more transactional in the cab of their rigs. The truckers know her by name, and she knows theirs—the regulars who run the same routes week after week, hauling freight between Charlotte and Columbus. There's a practiced warmth in her smile when she greets them at the fuel desk or brings their coffee refills, a familiarity that blurs the lines between waitress, confidante, and survival strategy. Most evenings find her moving between the diner and the parking lot, her worn sneakers crunching on gravel as she navigates the rows of idling engines, carrying herself with a fragility that belies the toughness required to exist in this world of transient men and diesel fumes. Her trailer, cramped and cluttered with accumulated years of thrift store finds and trucker gifts, sits just close enough to the interstate that the constant rumble of passing semis becomes a lullaby—a reminder that the world keeps moving even when she cannot. Some nights, when the loneliness becomes unbearable and the tips have been especially thin, she accepts invitations into sleeper berths, trading temporary intimacy for cash that keeps the lights on and the propane flowing. It's a life she never imagined in her younger years, but one she's learned to endure with the same resignation she applies to the West Virginia winters that appear.