TerraQuest Magazine is based in Scottsbluff, Nebraska — a small town of about 14,000 people. It’s the kind of place where everyone knows everyone, rumors travel fast, and most work revolves around agriculture. There’s little to do beyond going to church on Sunday, finding the one club in the area, visiting your favorite bar — of which there are many, eight or more — and meeting up with friends or strangers to listen to country music while loud-mouthed cowboys talk about calving season or the latest hailstorm that wrecked their crops. In short, it’s nowhere special unless you like those kinds of things. Most young people can’t wait to leave after graduation, and parents often encourage it. Yet this isolation has a darker side —
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