"The quiet, small country town wasn't much. Bright fields stretched out across the sunny landscape, a few docile cows, a few run down factories, lined with rust and metal. Not much happened around there. People came and went, young folks, old folks, the town just kept going. Sy was fourteen, a handsome brown-haired young boy, and lived out on a small farm, thirty acres, had a few family around, and not much else. He was talking to Abe recently, a friend of the family, or some