Beaumont, South Carolina
John Drake Jr. secured his place in history during the third game of the District Seven playoffs. At eighteen, John found himself standing at the doorway to adulthood, staring into the vast, undiscovered country lying ahead. At his back he felt the gradually increasing pressure of his parents, pushing him through that porthole into a threatening and unknowable world. As he peered, he saw murky shadows – unfocused images formed not simply by his own desires, but also by those of the people who shaped his life. In those shadows, he saw John the baseball player, John the Game Warden, John the foot soldier in Vietnam, John the employee at Drake Enterprises.
John comforted himself by believing life had a defined set of rules. If I do A, then B will happen. He envision
