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Me and Charley

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Time 15h 49m

Reads 1,330
Votes 20
Parts 34
Time 15h 49m

1960s amish blind blindness country crippled crutches death disability disabled dysfunction dysfunctional extrovert family fiction handicap introvert loneliness polio rural sensitive suicide twins vietnam wheelchair

Nine-year-old Trey's lonely, sad life as a fatherless misfit is changed forever when the new preacher's kid, the indomitable Charley, arrives.  Everyone around Charley sees him as tragically handicapped. Not so Charley himself, who lives life to the full and pulls everyone around him along, starting with Trey.  Watch them grow through challenges into young manhood and beyond.

This is a revised and somewhat condensed version of this story. It started out life as a short story but its characters just took hold of me until it grew into what you have at hand. The characters and settings are an amalgam of a lifetime of experience, sometimes intense, of all sorts of people and places. In themselves, however, they are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, places or events, other than what is clearly public knowledge, is coincidental.

If you're looking for sex in every paragraph, you need to look elsewhere.All Rights Reserved

1960s amish blind blindness country crippled crutches death disability disabled dysfunction dysfunctional extrovert family fiction handicap introvert loneliness polio rural sensitive suicide twins vietnam wheelchair

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