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By Tricia Dower

It wasn’t all poodle skirts and rock ‘n’ roll—in Stony River, N.J., the 50s was once a deadly time to come back of age. Absent moms, controlling fathers, biblical injunctions, teenage longing and small-town pretense abound, with the specter of violence throughout: loopy fathers, soiled boys, unusual males in unusual vehicles, one lifeless woman, one by no means obvious and one other long past missing.

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