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The property belongs to John now, a bequest of his dear parent’s will. It was also his home when he was but a child, so the frustration of today he couldn’t still. He gazed sadly at the dark gray Holly Oak, where he spent fond Summers of days long past, in the tree house his [...]

He was at the airport, the ticket counter, said “I’d like a ticket” without further banter. “Of course, sir” replied the agent with flair, “Now will you please tell me to where?” “Humor me” he muttered, “I’ll let you choose”, the agent sniffing the air for the scent of booze, and finding none, told the [...]

It was the darkest  period in American chronicle, brothers pitted against brothers clearly ironical. The side fought for depending largely on birth, they donned gray or blue to prove their side’s worth. From the North and the South, Americans all, thousands of brave young men answered the call of the grim and gruesome days of the Civil War. And [...]