just the sort of neighborhood you would expect to find in just about any town in the country in the last or next half century . the citizens with him had been restless . `` our little girl is hurting so bad -- -- - '' mad dog said nothing . i 'm tired of living with all this pain . then you can shoot us out that direction without us running into anything . '' `` the kind of problems any teenager would have- '' hunter raised a hand . parker looked around but saw nothing . 