As if suddenly, little towns where people once lived all their lives in the same houses now fill with strangers who don’t bother to speak or wave. Life is a lonely business. Gloss it how you will, plaster it over with politic bullshit as you please, ours has been a brutal history, punishing without regret whatever or whomever belonged or threatened to belong in place, converting the land to poverty and money any way that was quickest.