On the streetlight closest to our house was a poster of a missing girl I didn’t know named Patty Hardin.
My father walked me out to the streetlight twice, once in the rain, pointed at Patty’s face and lectured me that the world was a sphere of evil and that nothing happy and wholesome happened after dark.
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