Having no home to sell, nor future income, and a substantial gambling debt spread out amongst several bookies in the Sunshine Terrace, Maple Park, and Pine Ridge tri-subdivisional area, Meredith Orm and her daughter Samantha were forced to make a break for it. Hoping to put the past behind them, they moved away from their quiet sub-divided community nested in the “country,” far from the hustle and bustle of city life, to the home of Meredith’s mother, Cynthia Davidson, in the city of Clintonville, Wisconsin. Known for its ancient Menomonee Indian mounds and celebrated glacier ravines, Clintonville was tucked away in the flat farmlands of the prosperous Fox Valley. Basically it was nowhere, with lots of nothing surrounding it.
This hasty move out of Sunshine Terrace had drastic consequences for the bookies to whom Meredith Orm was indebted. Owed substantial sums ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 dollars, the entire bookie industry was shaken to its core by the sudden disappearance of Meredith Orm. The largest of the operations put bounties on Meredith’s head in hopes of retrieving what was owed to them. Several bookies were forced to give up their dreams of independence and re-join larger bookie operations, or in some cases were forced to find work elsewhere. The latter was the case with Randy “The Rock” Fitzino, who went bankrupt, leaving him no choice but to migrate back to Marion, Wisconsin with his son Paulie, to once again work for the Marion Trucking Company owned by his uncle Antonio “The Hammer” Fitzino. Marion, Wisconsin is a mere five miles from Clintonville.
As fate would have it, Samantha Orm, daughter of suicidal novelist, David Orm and his widow, Meredith Orm, attended a high school football game in the neighboring town of Marion, where she met Paulie Fitzino, son of Meredith Orm’s ex-bookie Randy Fitzino.
The two teens hit it off, and, after a nip of peppermint schnapps cleverly hidden in the plastic SunDrop bottle that Paulie kept in his backpack, they made their way under the bleachers and proceeded enthusiastically to make out. Fearful of being caught, Paulie suggested they relocate to the back of his car: a practice that continued during much of the football season. This little love affair climaxed with the unpassionate devirginization of both the teens in the wildly popular corn maze, THE CORN A’MAZE’MENT PARK, just outside of Hortonville, which led ultimately to their dramatic break-up, after Samantha told Paulie she had a bun in the oven.
Samantha’s tears were in vain as she attempted to convince her boyfriend that everything would be ok, and that they could raise the bun together. Paulie wanted nothing to do with it, but despite his frightened urging to get rid of the problem, Samantha wanted to keep the baby.
Samantha’s mother, having been exposed to a new strain of the bio-chemically stimulated flowering fungus in the form of prescription drugs activated by television blue waves that gave her violent mood swings and irrational fears of the outside world, kicked Samantha out under threat of her life. She would not allow Samantha to take any of her clothes and gave her no money saying, “You are the spawn of the liberal media, and have no respect for yourself, therefore I have no respect for you. You will leave and never come back, unless you wish to lose your wasted existence at the hands of your creator.”