Name: Paul
Gallagher
Age: 30
Occupation: Production
manager, machinery plant
Place of birth: This
very town, in my mom and dad’s bedroom
How long have you
been working at the plant?
Since I graduated high school. I like the work. I’m good at
it, and like my old man always said, it’s an honest living. I feel like I
belong there.
What would you have
done instead?
I don’t know. I thought I had a shot at being a football
player when I was in high school, but I wasn’t good enough to get a scholarship.
Maybe I could have been a cop – I know I can scare the shit out of people when
I have to.
If you could live
anywhere else in the world, where would it be?
I think maybe I’d just be a wanderer, if I could. I’d just
roam the earth, see it all. I don’t think I could find any place else to belong
the way I do here.
What’s the one thing
that makes you proudest?
Finding a place for myself in this world. Standing up tall
even when everybody around me wanted to beat me down. Surviving.
When were you
happiest?
The day I met Billy. I remember it like it was yesterday,
even though I wish I didn’t sometimes. I felt free. I felt alive. It’s hard,
knowing I can’t ever have that again.
What’s your biggest
regret?
That I couldn’t do more to help Billy. That he had to die
the way he did. That I didn’t see it coming. If it hadn’t happened, maybe I
could have been a better friend to Jimmy, too. Maybe we wouldn’t be where we
are now.
What’s your greatest fear?
That I don’t have a place in the world anymore – that all
that’s over now, because of…what happened.
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