The Reader Travels

How come everybody I know from Oklahoma is shrouded in a cloud of drama? Is there something about Oklahoma? Maybe it’s the ghosts of spurned Cherokees, haunting the land. Or maybe all the lost souls in the world get reincarnated into Oklahoma babies. Who knows?

Or maybe it’s just that everybody I know from Oklahoma was so maladjusted they had to leave home in search of something better, and the closest something better was the shiny city of Dallas, Texas. So, that would mean that the people that stay in Oklahoma are just, well, OK.

Pondering these thoughts, I set out on a short literary journey of Oklahoma, starting with S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. This is exactly the type of drama I’m talking about - orphaned young hooligans, drinking and fighting and searching for love, all misunderstood. For such a small book, it was filled with a whole lot of pain.

Here’s to my Oklahoma drama queens. Stay gold.

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