She didn't elaborate and I didn't push it.

For the next three hours I gave her the Reader's Digest version of my life. When I got done she knew more about me than anyone alive other than my parents. She seemed spellbound. When I finally wound down she had only one thing to say.

"Wow."

Of course, for all my openness, I made her promise to keep what I told her in confidence.

We made it back to Crockett with forty five minutes to spare. Jim was about to give me shit but Moira warned him off.

When the show was over I went to Wal-Mart and got one of...