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    The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates "Honey, I need you to keep still. You're bleeding all over the place." The bartender’s voice—Darcy’s voice, my booze addled mind absently amended—sounded tinny, like she was shouting at me from across the width of the Grand Canyon, even though she was right next to me, wedged in between my highbacked stool and the bar top. I could feel the warmth of her slim hands contrasting with the smooth cool metal of the ri
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    I am not concerned that you have fallen. I am concerned that you arise. —Abraham Lincoln AFTER attending seven different funerals during the almost 15 years that I’d been in the military, I was done. All I wanted was to move the fuck on, even if I didn't think it was possible. You can run from your past, but eventually you have to stop and take a breath. By that point you’re so emotionally gassed, that the reality of why you were running in the first place, slams into you with the forc
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    In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. —Margaret Laurence THE smell of sizzling bacon fat hit me the moment I walked into the house. When I entered the kitchen, Emma was sitting in a high-backed barstool at the large granite island with her back to me. Adelyn stood on the other side of the kitchen, flipping pancakes in a frying pan on the stovetop before she turned slightly to work on scrambling eggs in another frying pan. She move
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    Former Delta Operative, Sam Trammel’s entire world has just collapsed and with no other option, he returns to Florida to bury his twin and his past. Ben Santiago is an Episcopal priest, a man with a checkered past, and a close friend of Sam's family. After a chance meeting brings them together, the two men navigate the tangled web of regret and forgiveness as friendship turns into love despite the obstacle of Sam's PTSD, and his reluctance to move toward Ben instead of away. Family and new friendships help Sam to rebuild and realize that sometimes the path to healing and finding home, is by confronting your past head-on.
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    Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald PEOPLE say you can never come home again. But the deep dark truth is that no matter how far you run, your past always patiently waits until it finds a way to bring you back to center where your cast-off shit lives and thrives, so it can rise up with the wrath of a fucking zombie army, chew off your dick, and save it for a late afternoon snack on a rainy day. Overdue homecomings, they are a bitch. The
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