She never felt safe at home as a young girl, and didn't understand why when she finally escaped she wasn't safe in the big wide world either ...effectively jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!
For a time, I perched myself on a flat rock, comparing my life with the Guyandotte River. Just as its tributaries replenish it daily, changing it in some small—sometimes great—degree, so have the day-to-day occurrences of life changed me. Like the ri
Words are the mirror to our thoughts.
They can reveal in an instance what we dare dream.
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Paul was born in July of 1945, in the then unmapped and sparsely populated town of Leominster, Massachusetts. He volunteered for military service at the age of 17 and served as a United States Marine from April of '63 through July of '67-when he was honorably discharged a decorated veteran of the Vietnam Era. A father to four, published poet and retired master pressman, Paul now resides at his home on picturesque Naukeag Lake in Ashburnham, MA., where he pens away his retirement years freelance writing prose, poetry, and short stories.
OH Brother, published in the early part of 2008
Birth Place
Leominster, MA USA
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Paul CicconeJr
40 Page Ave
Ashburnham MA 01430
USA
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