I am sitting on my front stoop. I Think It's about midnight. I was busy reading up until an hour ago, but my eyes started to hurt from squinting. Now it's just me and the waiting.it's 1987 and fourteen-year-old ellie rom...I am sitting on my front stoop. I Think It's about midnight. I was busy reading up until an hour ago, but my eyes started to hurt from squinting. Now it's just me and the waiting.it's 1987 and fourteen-year-old ellie roma doesn't have much of a family.