Prologue- This is the story of a young boy, his neighbor and his sister. The memories of that young boy’s experiences live in me still, but I cannot tell this story from his perspective, I can only tell this story from the perspective of the man, forty years his senior, that I am today. The time of this story is 1962, the place is Southern California, the ‘Greater Los Angeles Area’, as it was known. For the sake of those involved I won’t specify the location any more closely than that. This was a time before