 Mary Catherine Hamm is your age, and you are both J.D. Vance's age, not my age. I interviewed J.D. back in 2016 as a young man in a hurry who had written a marvelous book about my state and his hometown, Middleton, not very unlike Warren, Ohio, a burnt-out steel town where the mills have closed and the car companies have packed up and gone with a drug problem and deaths of despair.