Cecil
It is said of the area where Cecil was born and raised that there are two seasons: Winter and two weeks of bad ice-skating. It was the ice-skating season, and he was off to visit his grandmother in Buffalo. His mother had purchased a bus ticket on an old small state bus-line for him. It was about an eight hour drive to Buffalo if you avoided the troopers, but the bus trip took fourteen hours due to its frequent stops. At age nineteen Cecil was small, about 5’7” tall, and thin due to his mothers wishes, she was a vegetarian and therefore so was he. His father had tired of his mother quickly and left when he was three months old. She clung to Cecil as a substitute and raised him in a stifling Victorian …