The smell of tobacco has impregnated his skin all over, making him as unmistakable as the scent of a house that he has already known.
Soft-hearted yet rough to the touch, he jealously guards a smile still intact under his cowboy hat.
The last bastion of an American dream that flicks through the same plot over and over again: there is no question that the change he's seeking will be found right there, in that diner.