Farm girls prepped for prom night, and the El Riad Shrine was helping kids defy the odds.

But with the right kind of corn-fed, white-bread, flag-mad, six-pack, gun-rack, snow-pack, steel-yard, pig-lard, brick-mill, steel-will, South Dakota prairie perspective, you can imagine them defying other things too — like Gods.

How did I know this and how did I notice?

Because I saw a sign.