Blake was seven when he began to realize the world was bigger than the parts he knew about. His family lived in a suburban apartment complex carved from pastureland astride a busy thoroughfare.
Most of what he knew was Andy and Barney just before the six o’clock news, a few cartoons on Saturday morning—Scooby Doo, Muhammad…
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