A friend, who is a published writer, has told me he is writing a story about a prodigal son who returns home to Nebraska only to be rejected by his family and by people of his native town. I don't know much about him (my friend) other than that he is from Nebraska and is not currently in Nebraska, and I asked him if the story was autobiographical. He laughed and said that no, it was inspired by a news story he had read in a newspaper about something that happened in New England, "and on what you told me", and he decided to transplant the locale to the places that he knows well.
Following the rejection the principal character first leaves the town, then after some time, months or years, returns to exact his revenge. Whether that part is also based on facts or imagined I am not sure, and my friend didn't explain. Nor did he explain what it was that I had told him that made it into his story.
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