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The odyssey began on June 7, 1957. It was graduation night across North Carolina. Four young people, from different parts of the state, would complete their high school experience and then immediately seek out the path of least resistance leading to Myrtle Beach. How could they have known what lay in store for them along the fabled Grand Strand? Their circuitous paths would cross at different times and under a variety of circumstances. By the end of their week at the beach, they would become friends for life. The human equation would be incomplete, however, without that other young man who was gifted with a pair of feet that complemented his social agility. He would be revered as the best Shagger in the world. He would come to know all there was to know about J. T. Wilde, Billy Ray Odom, Olivia Maulden, and Cindy Ann Adams. They would know him only as Mr. Beach.