I want to apologize for not getting this up sooner…
But we’ve suffered a tragic loss on this side. Although he was not my child, not my son…well, when you have a child in your life and you watch him as he grows up with your own children; when you attend his wedding, and have him over for Christmas every year; when you buy his children presents and treat them like the grandchildren you know your own children will never give you, and he loses a child…you still feel the pain.
Linden had been born with a hole in his heart and was not expected to live without a heart transplant. He was given that reprieve, but died, last Saturday. He was not yet sixteen. As his heart-broken father said: “He hadn’t even kissed a girl.” And that’s enough of that because that’s gonna bring out the tears...
This is FREE. The next four chapters will be FREE.
After that, (so that’s two weeks from now), I’m putting it up “for sale”. The paywall goes up, and stays up. I know, I said I was going to put the PAYWALL up…
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