Real Life, before then (in the very last moments of a purely non-digital world) and also: after now, in the version of our towns called Laramie, NM, which doesn’t exist either.

“You got three choices. You go to school, you get a job, or you get out.”

Gas Food and Lodging (1992)

(If you watch really close, you will find some clues that Laramie equals Deming.)

(There is more than one set of 3, too, my one.)

(His name is John and he drives a Ford pickup.)