In a world that avoided a global pandemic, it was a typical hot July day in a small town in the Midwest U.S.A. Temperatures were high, the birds and the bees were out in force, the sun was high above. Just a typical summer day, in a typical small town called Highland, located some thirty miles from the "Gateway to The West" as it had become known as.

The skies are blue, clouds are few, the sun is high, the smell of barbeque fills the neighborhood. Bills paid, grass cut, everything a good home owner does is done, all that's left to do now, is to simply enjoy life.

Independence Day, the celebrated birth of the nation, the time in which fireworks are shot off, women don bikinis, men generally don boxers, and yard games are played before the eventual return of winter.

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