Fairly Certain

FAIRLY CERTAIN

Some road trips change your life. Most of them do it gradually - a wrong turn here, a flat tire there, a late-night conversation at a diner that shifts something in you. Tommy Ferraro and Pete Kowalski's road trip changed their lives in approximately three minutes. That's how long Tommy was in the bathroom at Ricky's Fuel & Go in Beecham, Alabama, population 4,200, while the rest of his future was being rearranged without his knowledge or consent.

Tommy Ferraro is twenty-two, a...