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" All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost. "
Ghost
Life
Conversation
" Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about. "
Write
Because
Struggle
" Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.' "
Yellow
Today
Arts
" I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994. "
Came
Nebraska
First
" I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me. "
Life
Me
I Am
" I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there. "
Values
Traveled
Similarities
" I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way. "
People
Know
Everyone
" I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect. "
Crime
Effect
Most
" Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska. "
Nebraska
People
Live
" One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give. "
Son
Walk
People
" There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form. "
Good
Art
Crime
" Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time. "
Falling
Rain
Same
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