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Wild
by Cheryl Strayed

1 I am technically fifteen days older than the Pacific Crest Trail. I was born in 1968, on September 17, and the trail was officially designated by an act of Congress on October 2 of that same year. The trail existed in various forms long before that—sections of it having been forged and pieced together since the 1930s, when a band of hikers and wilderness enthusiasts first took interest in creating a Mexico-to-Canada trail—but it wasn’t until 1968 that the PCT was designated and not until 1993 that it was complete. It was officially dedicated almost exactly two years before I woke that first morning among the Joshua trees that had stabbed me. The trail didn’t feel two years old to me. It didn’t even feel like it was about my age. It felt ancient. Knowing. Utterly and profoundly indifferent to me.

QUESTIO

In paragraph 1, the author details the history of the Pacific Crest Trail to —
A) show the sacrifices that were necessary to complete the trail
B) imply that it took an unreasonable amount of time to create the trail
C) contrast how new the completed trail is with how old it feels to her
D) emphasize that the trail’s history is not as interesting to her as the trail itself is