![]() ![]() It was high school and reputation meant everything. He didn’t want to be associated with Larry, the school half-wit. Larry tried to rekindle his relationship with Silas, but Silas wouldn’t have it. ![]() Silas had grown into a confident young man who excelled in sports and worked on an athletic scholarship. He read horror books and Stephen King and managed to bring lives snakes to school, hidden within his pockets. He was always trying to create attention and failing miserably when the attention he received was negative. By then, Larry Ott had grown into the kid who couldn’t fit in. The boys grew apart and didn’t meet again until high school. For one magical summer, the boys formed a short friendship which was eventually halted by an awkward moment with Larry’s father, race and distance. ![]() Silas Jones was the black son of their former maid and squatted in a shanty on the same property. Larry Ott was the white son of a mechanic and lived in a comfortable home on 500 acres of woods and farmland. During the hot and sticky summer months in rural Chabot, Mississippi, two boys formed an unlikely friendship in the late seventies. ![]()
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