FARM STORY
Coming out of Indiana. Eddie Casson grew up on a farm in a small Indiana town where Church, family, and identitywere the unchanging signposts of an acceptable life. Conventionality was more than justexpected--it was the highest form of success. Art, music, and movies might have their placehere and there, but bonus was for boys to excel at traditional masculinepursuits. Despite always feeling somehow different and apart from most of everyone elsearound him, he worked hard to be the perfect image of a son, brother, and friend. Reared in ahousehold where perfection and faith were the two pillars of the family, he struggled