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Gordon discovers that he most definitely was never a boy nor really from earth at all. He has an ulterior objective unbeknownst to even himself until recently. He meets someone who is not who or what she seems. Then there is a dog, wily even sage like and not entirely a dog. Gordon by day works in the trades building things like decks. He is handy with power tools. Then there is a long ago forgotten and distant inter-galactic coalitional force which is still operational but only just.