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| My elementary school, W.C. Abney, in New Hope, Georgia. |
In this episode of The Southern Extension, Chain of Events - Part One, I tell a story of how fate and bad decisions cascaded to put me in a position to meet a boy that would eventually try to kill me.
This story is from 1984 and is the true story of how I met the character named Rowe and the events that precipitated Blackout Log from Dweller On The Boundary. Possibly without any one of these events happening then I might never have met three boys in the woods.
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| The battered trees along the north shore of Jekyll Island, Georgia serve as inspiration for this episode. Photo by me, April 2015. |
In this episode that begins at my elementary school I put this fateful meeting into context as to what was happening in my eleven year old life and lay the foundation for Blackout Log. It is a complex story and not as simple as what I wrote. This is the full story and spans episodes four and five.
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| Me at age eleven in one of my Braves shirts in a school photo. |
I am not discussing what happened at Blackout Log, I wrote about it once in Dweller On The Boundary and will not elaborate. This is how I came to be there.
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| The cover of my yearbook from fifth grade. Of course our school mascot was a bird. |
The above photo is from my 1984 school yearbook. That is me in my fifth grade classroom. I have a broken left arm. My arm is in a sling and this was after the first time I broke it that year. The second time I would have my arm and hand strapped to my torso after surgery. My terrible teacher is pretending to help a student in the corner for the camera. This photo was staged just for this purpose as that teacher seldom got up from her desk. I loved and appreciated most of my teachers in the Paulding County school system, I had some wonderful ones, but this teacher was the only one that I disliked and the feeling was mutual.
If this episode had a song that related to it then it would be Drive by The Cars. It describes much of what happened in my life in the 1980s.
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Episode Four, Chain Of Events - Part One
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