They were free from the weight of public inspection, and as a result seemingly able to do pretty much whatever they wanted.Įven with my consistently overactive imagination, I always assumed that, despite the privacy they enjoyed, these upper-echelon residents of my home town were doing things that were… pretty normal. They lived lives that most of us could not understand. They seemed to exist behind the tall stone walls of their impressive estates.

These kids were members of families that had amassed that certain amount of wealth that brings with it a certain amount of mystery.