So we built a hockey team that was like us, that we could be proud of, because we weren’t like you. We’re not mad, we’re not greedy say what you like about Beartown, but the people here are tough and hardworking. Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else. People driving through say that Beartown doesn’t live for anything but hockey, and some days they may be right. But on the other hand, as people usually say here: What the hell else do you need? If you lay a current map of the town over an old one, the main shopping street and the little strip known as “the center” seem to shrink like bacon in a hot pan. The economy coughs every time it takes a deep breath the factory cuts its workforce each year like a child that thinks no one will notice the cake in the fridge getting smaller if you take a little bit from each side. We’re a small community in the forest people say that no roads lead here, just past. Because sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else. We’ll end up saying that violence came to Beartown this summer, but that will be a lie the violence was already here. Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did.
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