Now here Drew was, half the continent away from Gainesville and Tennessee, wearing Anse's spurs and half of Anse's name to find a father he had not known was still alive, until last year.
Drew was half a continent away from them.
Indeed, if you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it  It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.