What I had connfirmed today

[The People]

Years ago I met a woman that I stayed friends with for a long time. It started when we figured out in a support group that we were born in the same town and lived on similar streets where most houses had at least 1 perp in them. We were stunned (the fathe's BFF lived on her street). She moved away and was older than me.

Monday night I had a sudden urge to write someone. She thought about what I had told her (naming of some perps that would never be on lists but are young enough to still be misbehaving). The woman who wrote me back was unaware of this. She went on about some stuff and then added something that was shocking but not surprising.

A magazine did an article on my home town. The basis of the article? Why it had a higher than average # of perps This is a very small town. I laugh when I hear people talk about small towns as if they were the source of the holy grail.

KA was out for most of the day as you may have noted from her Olympics brag. However, it just hit me. It really was that bad.