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The Two Heroes of Thompsonville
from the book: Life Will Get You in the End:
Short stories by David Satterlee
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The Two Heroes of Thompsonville
Thompsonville was nowhere. It was a town of modest size and
not completely isolated, but mostly self-sufficient with its own traditions and
community standards. The railroads had passed it by during the great expansion.
The express highways had passed it by as well. It was too hilly for a canal –
it was too flat for a reservoir.
No native son ever grew up to be a governor or general. No
one ever started a museum of tiny carved furniture or old farm implements. It
was just a nice out-of-the-way place to live. As a matter of fact, it was a
nice place to grow old and die if you didn’t wander off in search of
something-or-other first.
Labith didn’t just wander off. He hit the road with a
vengeance. He had loved his childhood sweetheart, Roatrine for as long as he
could remember. They had played together as babies, studied together in school
and, in the course of time, come to know each other very, very well.
How could Roatrine refuse to marry him now? Why would she
