Doting teenage girls in New Sharon, Iowa, think Erick Tjarks is the man. According to his 15-year-old sister Mackenzi, he knows Ricky Stanzi — sizable news for the town with one blinking stoplight. “Mackenzi likes to wear her Ricky Stanzi jersey and claim that I’m good friends with him,” said Tjarks, smiling widely and laughing. “[It] kind of gets me in trouble sometimes. People ask me about Rick, and I have no idea, because I see him, like, three times a week, and I might talk to him once a week, and it might be for 10 seconds.” |
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