Leo Marquez, 59, runs a vintage travel trailer restoration shop out of a cinder block garage on the east side of Austin, and has avoided anything resembling casual intimacy since his wife Linda died of ovarian cancer eight years prior. His biggest flaw is that he frames every flicker of interest in another person as a betrayal, even when his friends tease him that Linda would have yelled at him for wasting his golden years moping alone. He’s spent the weekend at a Hill Country camper and craft show, running demos on resealing aluminum
