They celebrated 4th of July with reckless abandon in the spirit of misguided patriotism. Until this year\u2019s crazed private celebration, all had gone relatively well.<\/p>\n
The Donegans, Bob, Mitzy, and their kids, Joey, Johnny, and Jimmy loved to light fireworks on their land near Eureka. They\u2019d get it from Tijuana, and drive up past San Francisco with enough firepower every 4th of July to start their own preemptive war. Their family health insurance plan typically served for mundane family catastrophes that might occur at other times of the year. Except for this single idiosyncrasy, a well-intentioned rite for celebrating our nation\u2019s birthday, the Donegans were pretty ordinary. Bob was a self-employed entrepreneur with a computer repair business. Mitzy did the company\u2019s books, and the kids, already quite computer literate, did the troubleshooting if the trouble wasn\u2019t too complicated.<\/p>\n
Around June 29th the family drove off merrily humming. Their black hummer headed south for (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They celebrated 4th of July with reckless abandon in the spirit of misguided patriotism. Until this year\u2019s crazed private celebration, all had gone relatively well. The Donegans, Bob, Mitzy, and their kids, Joey, Johnny, and Jimmy loved to light fireworks…<\/span><\/p>\n