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What could be worse than spending your last hours of existence in a mind full of regrets and guilt over your life exploits? Only one thing—being the victim of those deeds. Duane Coulter was dying and the children whose lives he had so badly damaged asked themselves why they felt the need to be present when he passed, perhaps hoping that the final breath would somehow ease their always present despair. While Duane lay dreaming his last memories, no one saw the tear that slid down the oxygen tube, and caught on his earlobe before landing undetected on his pillow. His children would never know that he finally understood. They would still have to deal with the sadness, shame, and mistakes they had already made as adults.
Adult children of a cruel and neglectful father relive and confess to each other much of the trauma and fear they experienced growing up and as surviving adults of a barely survived childhood. They all know they survived only because of a mother who did her best to protect them, even though she often paid a price for doing so.
The two main characters, Leal and Scott, share poignant stories, and realize through the telling that they experienced their childhood differently based on gender. There is violence, deceit, and desperation, in their journey to "older age" that makes the re |
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