When you hear “the great state of Texas,” I expect you to conjure a whole dossier of information, all drawn from the broadest stereotypes and absolutely true: urban cowboys driving luxury trucks to daddy-daughter day at the gun range quarterbacks so fast they can outrun rape charges textbooks edited by Creationists and an exorbitant, state-wide pride in all of this because we’re Texas. This story takes place in the year 1986, in the great state of Texas.
