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Road tripping across the southern states in 2008 my friends and I met a strange man called Richard. He cornered us with rapid fire conversation outside a Wall Mart somewhere in Mississippi. He stated that because we were Australian, and his cousin or brother or father had run away to the rodeos in northern Australia,…