I never lived in a small town with an iconic water tower that says NAME OF TOWN on it, but it's an easy enough scene to imagine. One day you're playing deep right field bored off your ass looking at this water tower that's been in the background your entire life, and you wonder, "what if it fell". Then as a teen you meet other kids at the tower to "get some pizza" (code word for "doing drugs") and you look up and say "God, I wish that dumb old thing really would crash down one day". You leave, you come back years later, maybe the tower's still there, maybe it isn't, maybe you notice it's gone, maybe something's changed but you can't figure out what.
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