6-year-old Eden Rice (the romantic) and 4-year-old Kemp Muhl (the cynic) first met while playing with ducks by a lakeside, and grew up together in a Norman Rockwell painting in the heat of suburban Georgia. Sharing a fascination with nature, birds, fairies and Shakespeare, they developed into creative and slightly eccentric teenage outcasts. They painted side by side, exchanged talents, shared secrets and made up their own imaginary language. In their early teens...