How well I know this story, for it is my own: the young American who learns our myths about the old country across the ocean are just that. Jackson Braider uses his extraordinary skills of narration to guide us through one of those painful moments of disappointment and revelation (if I may use a fitting Biblical term here) that send us hurtling down the road towards maturity. Perfect for a magazine program drop-in looking for a piece that is iconoclastic enough to be interesting, but that also has an uplifting finish.