holy crap dude.
you were my friggin neighbor.

well kinda.
we lived on the corner of DeLeon & Commercial - right across fro mthe train & windmill.
Also our cousin lived right next to you on the corner of Stayon & the train track.
also , riding around town in my 1986 Chevy shortbed I almost always had a rifle or 2 slung across the gun rack in the back window.
made a girl feel safer since every kicker in the world feels it;s his duty to hoot & hollar at a chick in a truck in the summer with no a/c.
I'm going ot have to agree with this just based on the sheer # of realtives we had get arrested or deported.
What made the whole situation a bit stranger tho is that we have a couple good friends who happen to be Feds in v-town (mookie if you call me a narc i'll ign kill you) anyway we all worked out at the same Gym - body of Fitness on navarro behind church's chicken - that at the tiem was owned by a police officer friend of ours (he;s since sold it to another friend).
So we are at the gym at lunch ( emo worked at Atzenhoffer so it was right across the street) adn the two Feds come in and take us aside adn are like...
"hey we don;t want this to be weird or anythgin but we wanted to let you know that we took down Junior this morning (my hubbies uncle) and it looks like he;s going away for another 30" Talk about awkward.
also in '98 there seemed to be a whole slew of teen suicides.