Characters
- Dodge - in his seventies
- Halie - Dodge's wife; mid-sixties
- Tilden - Their oldest son; late forties
- Bradley - Their next-oldest son, an amputee
- Vince - Tilden's son
- Shelly - Vince's girlfriend
- Father Dewis - a Protestant minister
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