I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

