A spoonful of the past

He had received the most lavish praises, and he had harvested the nastiest curses.
He was a guy whose every vein pulsed with defiance.
He was a white boy who could never become a celebrity.
He was a youth from the countryside in the eyes of the masses.
He was Tommy Hawk.
He had been reborn.
Welcome to the story that tells of the American Dream in the first half and the American nightmare in the second.
Let's invite Tommy Hawk to take the stage, in the winter of 2022.

America 1982

Tommy arrived in Flagstaff, Arizona at seven in the evening, but he still received a warm welcome from Eric and his wife, who treated him to Flagstaff's special secret-recipe meat-filled burgers and Red Rock Volcano ice cream.


Eric's wife was from Texas and now worked as a professor at Northern Arizona University. Their children also lived in Texas because Eric's in-laws owned a large farm there where the kids could ride horses, fly planes to spray pesticides, and be taken care of by their grandparents, saving a considerable amount in nanny expenses.


As for Eric, he was the same as when he was younger, spending more than half of the year flying around the world dealing with various geological formations. He found his job fascinating because earthquakes were even more unpredictable than people's hearts.


Chapter 7: I don't often mention her, but I often think of her.