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Duncan, Oklahoma, takes pride in its homespun image and churchgoing values—though, like many American towns, its soul has been swallowed by chain stores and fast-food restaurants. The old Rock Island tracks literally divide the haves and have-nots, in an increasingly unbridgeable split. Buzz Bissinger discovers how a killing crossed that line, on August 16, laying bare the desperation of three young lives, and ending a fourth.