This technique, which I'd learned years before, is called "mind-mapping" and it allows random streams of thought and information to be dumped out onto a sheet of paper in whatever order they tumble. I had lines for "man," then branches off that line for "dark hair," "short," "big clothes," "Ohio," "Robin Hood," "Merry Men," "baseball," and "bat." I drew another branch off the circle and wrote out "Alyssa," "revenge," and "sins of the past." When I opened them, I drew a circle in the middle of the blank page and labeled it "Allison's killer." I began drawing lines stemming from the circle and labeling these with whatever free associative thought I had. I thanked him and pulled a pen from my purse, then closed my eyes and concentrated for a moment. When I asked if I could trouble him for a clean sheet of paper, he kindly paused in his scribbling and tore off several sheets, handing them to me with a smile. The gentleman next to me was diligently making notes on a legal pad, and an idea occurred to me. I looked at the magazine I'd purchased for the flight and thought about reading it, but I was too wound up. As I sat on the plane I anxiously bobbed my knee up and down, staring out the window and pondering what to do to pass the time.
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