Read the excerpt from A Girl Named Zippy.One woman even said that Mooreland “is a long way to go not to be anywhere when you get there,” and yet I persisted.

The woman’s remark suggests that Mooreland is so small or unremarkable that traveling there feels like arriving nowhere. It does not literally say that the town is far from other cities or difficult to reach. The best choice is “Mooreland is very small and plain.”

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