Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."

It's one thing to build in the plains of Kansas, but it's another thing to go into a metropolitan area.

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the music dimmed and the stars went dark.