It was hard to stop talking once the childhood friends started talking again after a long separation. Scott Smith sat in Strong Torres's stall. Wendy Reed took out three bottles of mineral water and gave them to Scott Smith, Strong Torres and Mary Parker. Strong Torres had been a chatterbox when he was a child, and he became even more talkative now. He told Scott Smith about the general situation of his childhood classmates and friends, and also told Scott Smith that there would be a class reunion at the end of this month.

Scott Smith spent his childhood in the countryside. He was adopted by an elderly widower who...