Barboursville is a real place, where I spent a great deal of time. It's where all of Huntington, WV does its shopping. Businesses moved there instead of Huntington due to the better tax rates. Buses run between Huntington and Barboursville every day except for Sunday. No buses on Sundays. (My friend had to quit her old job because she had no car and they wouldn't give her Sundays off.)
Actually, every place in this story is real except for Mapleton, which is a composite based on many small towns (but mostly one I grew up in – which is not quite in the same location). There's a lot of real to this story, which makes me pretty happy. It's as fictional as they come but also the epitome of "write what you know." Everything about it feels familiar.
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