Call Of the Wild

摘要

They called themselves the elite six-And the name was meant to be ironic. This was Wasilla, Alaska, 30 miles (about 50 km) north of Anchorage, in the early 1990s-when the sagging economy meant, as a local recalls, "everyone had dust on their ass." There was nothing elite about this little town on the stretch of highway along the railroad. And there was nothing elite about the group either-six stay-at-home moms who sought one another out to escape the house and get some exercise in the long northern winter. They would do their step aerobics, then drive to a local diner for coffee and dessert. It was a lifeline in lean times.