❝REMEMBER, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE THIS SOMETHING.❞
VALERIE KESTER took a gap year from college to tend to her ill mother. She came to realize that there was nothing good about living in small-town Benton, Illinois. Yet, the arrival of her neighbor's youn...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
September 16,1963 Benton, Illinois
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
Bo and Geo, 1963
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
A BRIGHT AND SUNNY AFTERNOON it was in the month of September. Valerie Kester stepped out of her evergreen 3204 Stepside Pickup truck named Esmerelda, or Ezzie, who had been with her since she got her license. It was the cheapest Momma could get, so Valerie was beyond grateful for it. Her bright blue eyes got blinded by the Sun; her right hand came up instinctively to cover them. Miss Valerie had just come from her father, Carl's, house in Nashville, quite a ways of a drive from Benton, but not far.
