"The Prologue for Book #3 2023"
By Doctor Ricky 1024
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Taste of My Reality is a book of Pain and Misery.
Pain and Misery along the Avenues of my Life.
Since conception to my final and last direction.
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Truly, these are Dark Times in which we live.
And we must be.
(along with our future generations)
Completely aware of the consequences.
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Yes, consequences that can change your life for the better.
Yes, or even for the worse.
The worst in a Blink.
"Blink of a Broken Heart Beats Eye"
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From fine poetry to short stories and Fairytales.
The book entitled, "Taste of My Reality"
Will surely, at the least, entertain you from the viewpoint of this Latter-day Saint Priest.
Amen.

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"Taste of My Reality" (A)
(Chapter Number One)

From the very moment of my Concepcion.
Yes, I should have known I was perhaps heading in the wrong direction.
Born in Newport, Rhode Island.
October 24th, 1954 in a Naval Hospital.
My mother tells me I was such a big baby that they did not have time.
Time to perform an episiotomy until I ripped her and caused her three pints of blood!
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A trouble child.
I found relief in my older brother David.
I would wait by the picture window all morning for him to come home from kindergarten.
And, then again the following year in first grade.
I could not understand why he stopped wanting to play with me before he'd found himself a friend.
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At this point in my life around 1959, my father was home from his last hitch in the Navy in '58.
Yes, as a Naval Chief Petty Officer.
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Note: Even though highly decorated, serving twenty-six years on four destroyers at sea, dad was not there for my three brothers and me.
Unfortunately, he died from cirrhosis in 1972.
I was only eighteen.
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As I walk along these Avenues of my present Life.
I think about my losses of my only son Jason, followed only Eight months later with my only wife.
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God, the pain is always present and sometimes seems to dissipate?
Yes, but on occasion.
Unfortunately, it will surface with past agony, guilt, and Constant regrets from Fate.
Approximate Word Count:499.