Curses ... Spoiled Again!

Jasper, Nebraska
February 2, 1957


Jazz was in love. Absolute lust-filled, hormone-jumping, panting love. She stared at the aqua and white Ford Thunderbir [image error] d with the same covetousness she gave her favorite See's chocolates.
Too bad there was a cranky looking woman seated in the passenger seat.
"So, ah, Fred Merton over at the Saveway said you can do something about things like this." Harold Carmichael, a ruddy-faced man in his late 50s shifted from one foot to the other. He turned back to stare at...