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Amid this setup we meet Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a small-town Louisiana bar waitress with her own supernatural issues. She can read people's minds, making daily life a minefield of too much information. When the bar gets its first vamp visitor, 173-year-old Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), she takes a shine to him, not just for his smoky looks or his undead-Confederate-soldier courtliness: to her relief, she can't read his thoughts. Their romance unnerves her friends and coworkers, though, particularly when women start turning up dead with twin puncture wounds...
...classic story. The demure small-town librarian swept off her feet by the handsome prince - a story with its roots in Cinderella ... and also, in this case, in the rather unbelievable recent history of our country. The librarian is smart and attractive but almost catatonic with guilt: her carelessness behind the wheel once caused the death of a good friend. The prince is charming, as advertised, but also carefree in a way that the librarian envies and mistrusts. He adores her, without question. She succumbs, with reservations. In Curtis Sittenfeld's brilliant novel American Wife, their names are Alice Lindgren...
...Four years later, she took on her former workout buddy in a race that quickly became contentious. In Stein's view, Palin's main transgression was injecting big-time politics into a small-town local race. "It was always a nonpartisan job," he says. "But with her, the state GOP came in and started affecting the race." While Palin often describes that race as having been a fight against the old boys' club, Stein says she made sure the campaign hinged on issues like gun owners' rights and her opposition to abortion (Stein is pro-choice...
...Vicki Naegele was the managing editor of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman at the time. "[Stein] figured he was just going to run your average, friendly small-town race," she recalls, "but it turned into something much different than that." Naegele held the same conservative Christian beliefs as Palin but didn't think they had any place in local politics...
...Normal small-town life for the First Dude and his wife is over. Even as Governor, Palin was still spotted at the market, driving her SUV around town, or worshiping at the nondenominational Wasilla Bible Church. On Friday afternoon, I was able to just pick up the phone and call Palin's parents, who live in town. They had just heard the news Friday morning themselves; they had been out caribou hunting and gold mining - how Alaska is that? - so there wasn't any advance warning for them. Her mother Sally told me this before remembering that...