It was the typical story of a childhood friendship. The older boy across the street who earned spare change by babysitting her from time to time in her upperclass home. He remained the down-to-earth badass who put a different kind of adventure in her life, but never let her have a taste of danger. When his family moved to the middle of nowhere "Midwest", they kept sporadically in touch. He fell in with a crowd of lower class kids, all struggling to...