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A Coat of Many Colors

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Joe is an emotionally and spiritually sensitive child, the inheritor of a psychic legacy that leads him to question the nature of reality and the reality of the spiritual world. As he comes of age in a family fraught with emotional and sexual abuse, he discovers an elsewhere of mythic proportions to which he can escape. Attempting to engage with his alternative reality to infuse his mundane life with meaning, Joe is turned around and charged with the divine task of finding justice, healing and mercy on the earth plane.

Based on a true story.

CONTENT WARNING: this story contains explicit and subtle references to sexual activity which can be construed as or is abusive toward underage characters.All Rights Reserved

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