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Print There’s little crime writers love more than an absurdly violent small town where everybody’s got something to hide. Characters are denied the anonymity of the big city; here, everybody knows everybody, has history with everybody, is barely clinging to some little string of privacy they’ve sewn out of view. But when the killer tears out the thread of one life, everyone in the social fabric feels the garment’s tug and secrets come unbound. Of course, in real life, small towns are usually not the setting of highly filmable crime sprees. A lot of people never really talk to their neighbors, and are happy to be oblivious to the problems of so-and-so’s daughter’s boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend you remember her. Sometimes the drama is whether people are going to go for that tax hike to upgrade the sewer system. This brings us to HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” and the real Easttown township on the farthest outskirts of Philadelphia. In the hit crime show, Easttown ....