From the Foreword: This is my second book about what it was like for a boy to grow up in Fargo from 1953 to 1980.? Make no mistake ? the idea of writing these is Not so readers will come to know Me personally.? My life isn't all that notable.? I just tell stories.? In this book, I am somewhat more reflective than narrative ? it isn't so much What happened that's interesting, but what lessons could be derived. That era ? 1950-1980 ? is too often overlooked down on the Personal level.? Yeah ? everyone has heard about the Big Historical Things, but few actually experienced most of those.? As one of my high school classmates (whose name is Very well-known in Fargo to this day) confided in a recent email, "I guess I assumed I was the only kid with an inner life." She wasn't.? We all had Inner Lives.? We all experienced them in our own way, figuring that there was some sort of Unique thing going on that wasn't anything like the lives we saw publicized on television.? We saw the Ozzie and Harriet fantasy, where Moms and Dads were always just 100% appropriate, Fine Upstanding People in their communities, with ha