Sheriff's deputies moved in then, each wearing a string tie that read "1965 SHERIFF'S RODEO," and Lucille Miller's father, that sad-faced junior-high-school teacher who believed in the world of Christ and the dangers of wanting to see the world, blew her a kiss off his fingertips.

-Joan Didion, "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" in Slouching Towards Bethlehem