This story is a prequel to the novel 'Afternoons with Mister D' An early October day. The leaves were changing. A maple, marking the location they arrived at, had turned golden a few weeks ago. Already it had dumped nearly all of its ornamentation. Two young men, friends since the days of grammar school, stood beside a rectangular boundary of light green grass, planted at the end of summer. "I'm joining the seminary," One of them said. His name was Jimmy Klein. He'd graduated high school a little less than a year and a half ago. He delayed going to college. His friend, the one beside him, Nicolas, was beginning his second year at a state college. "You talked about taking that road when we were Freshmen in high school," Nicolas said. "Yeah... then second year came... Cross Country..." "I remember." Nicolas scuffed the grass with the soul of his shoe. To everyone around him, he was known as Nick, or Nicolas D. No one eve...
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