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Making My Way

by Rudolph Terry Shappee

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If you want to rekindle memories of your childhood, or read about how you wish your childhood might have been, you need to read this book. The author paints a picture with broad brush strokes of love, of a time when children were allowed more freedom to find their way in life. While he is magnanimous in making allowances for the foibles of people he grew up with in a rural Oregon coastal town during the middle of the century, the author writes of loyalty, humor & comradeship among boyhood friends along with the danger & beauty of an unforgiving sea that provided his family with its livelihood. His stories of wartime generosity & post war recession when people were forced to stray beyond the law in order to feed themselves, asks the question, is it better to follow the letter of the law, or follow the dictates of the heart. The reader will both laugh & cry as they get caught up in this world of secret rooms & boyhood adventures, odd jobs & the loss of a first love, in one boy's struggle to make his way to manhood. This book will appeal to readers of all ages.… (more)
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If you want to rekindle memories of your childhood, or read about how you wish your childhood might have been, you need to read this book. The author paints a picture with broad brush strokes of love, of a time when children were allowed more freedom to find their way in life. While he is magnanimous in making allowances for the foibles of people he grew up with in a rural Oregon coastal town during the middle of the century, the author writes of loyalty, humor & comradeship among boyhood friends along with the danger & beauty of an unforgiving sea that provided his family with its livelihood. His stories of wartime generosity & post war recession when people were forced to stray beyond the law in order to feed themselves, asks the question, is it better to follow the letter of the law, or follow the dictates of the heart. The reader will both laugh & cry as they get caught up in this world of secret rooms & boyhood adventures, odd jobs & the loss of a first love, in one boy's struggle to make his way to manhood. This book will appeal to readers of all ages.

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