Long story for me, too. I spent a couple of days in Nanticoke in the 1990's trying to meet Pete Gray, but it never happened. I felt like I met the rest of the town in the process. While Pete eluded me at every turn, as he tried to do any time somebody wanted to meet him, I had the opportunity to learn lots about the man from friends and family. He was private, and had suffered break-ins from local punks, so I just hoped to run into him as opposed to being too bold in my attempt.
He lived in his childhood home and never had his own telephone. I'm talking land line, here!
Nanticoke was a likeable, working class town back then. Apparently the whole area is now a mess thanks to Oxycontin and the like. Same, sad story in so many parts of the nation.
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