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It wasn’t my fault. Those girls always seduced me, and later, the women and a couple of men. It all started in Korea, of course, when my commanding officer ordered me to go kill chickens. I was only following his orders, as I went to the local village, rounded up the hens and chicks, and killed each one with my bare hands.

Later I was taken prisoner and spent a better part of the year in a POW camp where I was always singled out.

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“Grannie Hattie, are you ready?”
Hattie Black’s back appeared stooped, the wrinkles on her pale, ivory face pronounced, and the liver spotted hands held her walker in front of her to help her maneuver about her room of the assisted living facility. It was warm and sunny that early October morning in Coral Gables, Florida.
Dorothy, though everyone in their family called her Dot, just turned twenty and was engaged to a college football athlete named Rex. Dot’s nose piercing gave away her generation, along with the tattoo of a unicorn prominently displayed on her upper back and shoulder to the chagrin of her great-grandmother. Her brown hair had a natural curl to it. Dot wore shorts, white blouse and sandals, and her Ray-Bans held up on her head.

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Mark is driving toward Missoula Airport with Hector and he asks him if he has anything to get off his chest; anything at all. Hector denies he does, but it’s a lie. There is a secret Hector has promised to keep from Mark. Four Seasons: A Search for Justice (In Pursuit of Justice) places Mark and Hector on their road to becoming FBI agents and solving crimes.“Road Trip,” is a Parody of “Three Little Pigs.” Mark bought a beat up Dodge Aspen Wagon on the same day he received a letter from Hector urging him to join the FBI. After much encouraging, Mark and Hector go from Richland, Washington through North Platte, Nebraska, a small bed and breakfast in Pennsylvania to a cul de sac just up the road to confront the assassin Che Lopez hired to take them out.

There is a beginning to this story called life. I ended one aspect of life on November 21, 2002. My new life is ongoing. Here is what happens when excess interferes with one’s will to live.

All that changed this day, when heading towards a pool table to shoot a shot …. my left leg decided to suddenly and unexpectedly give out. There’s no rhyme or reason for this …

Jerry Schelhammer

This Life changed dramatically following a stroke that left me rethinking where and what and why I messed up so badly. Then realizing life really is too short and a new positive approach needed to be enacted for my life to really mean something.