Before incessant text messaging, before male enhancement drugs and vibrating cell phones, and before heart transplants, space walks, and commercial color televisions, two guys - one black, one white - grew toward adulthood and self-discovery with each other. Their families had neither electricity nor any indoor plumbing in the swampy, 'Lost Paradise' of Okefenokee. And though the word was never spoken, and their desires were never completely fulfilled,...