Your story “Take Half, Leave Half” is about a long-lasting friendship between two boys—and then young men—from Montana, who grow up together but in different family circumstances. How did these characters come to you?
In lightly populated areas, social patterns seem clearer and more indelible than in places where more opportunities for transformation are at hand. Friendships begun in grade school commonly last lifetimes. Disrepute can linger unfairly or uncharitably with similar durability.
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