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Uplifting, heartwarming stories of an inquisitive boy trying to understand his three older sisters. In these stories, Dennis is ten when Grandpapa comes to stay. The elder is in hospice, and Dennis thought his antics are a great irritation on his sisters. At eleven-years-old, Dennis is not good at helping Papa fix the rototiller. Instead, he explores his sisters' bedroom while they are away, trying to understand these people. The next year, Dennis learns to stay off the middle school honor roll to avoid attention. Yet, he gets too much attention when he plays in an after school, flag football…mehr

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Uplifting, heartwarming stories of an inquisitive boy trying to understand his three older sisters. In these stories, Dennis is ten when Grandpapa comes to stay. The elder is in hospice, and Dennis thought his antics are a great irritation on his sisters. At eleven-years-old, Dennis is not good at helping Papa fix the rototiller. Instead, he explores his sisters' bedroom while they are away, trying to understand these people. The next year, Dennis learns to stay off the middle school honor roll to avoid attention. Yet, he gets too much attention when he plays in an after school, flag football game. When he is in junior high, the family moves to a farm and Papa buys a Holstein cow Dennis names Shelf Life. Milking the old cow is therapy, helping him adjust to his new school. Until she must be euthanized. Dennis gets over his grief when Papa brings Shelf Life's calf, Mary, to the farm. In December of his last year of junior high, Papa takes Dennis to a farm to slaughter a hog. Papa wanted to share his boyhood experience with his son and Dennis was glad for the sharing. It helped him consider being a vegetarian. After college, Dennis stays home taking care of Mary. Until one of his sisters introduces him to Helen.
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After a childhood on a Virginia dairy farm, I spent over three decades working in the Pentagon which qualified me to write science fiction. I have had almost thirty of my stories published in magazines and journals and I self-published several novels, all different. This guarantees me no author success as a brand name. Like Studs Terkel wrote, "Hope dies last."I live in eastern North Carolina where I belong to writing groups, teach a creative writing class at the library, and volunteer at nonprofits to include writing grants.More about me can be found at stanleybtrice.com. Please visit and sign up for my newsletter! I try to be different.Please try out my other books. I like all of them. More are coming.Peace begins with a smile.-Mother Theresa