[jcizzle]

Every place has a story, and every place changes. It's good to hear a story, it's good to see how things change and it's good to respect and understand the past. I could have really enjoyed this story, specifically because I've spent a lot of time in Kirkwood.

However, this signaling, righteous superiority masquerading as guilt ruined the whole story for me. It is as though the author feels he is a conqueror, having compassion for the community he so savagely destroyed with his amazing strength. But really, he just bought a house in a pretty normal neighborhood because that's what he and his wife can afford.

The jobs Anna and Tommie had decades ago are analogous to the jobs the author and his wife have today. He is in no way better than them. The author fits right into that neighborhood, he isn't changing it at all.