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Surreal Summer

by Ricky1024


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"Surreal Summer"
The Tallest Man in the World!
Written September 7th, 2020
By Dr. Ricky 1024
Copyright�© Fanstory 2020 '
'All Rights Reserved'

"Pain Reflects the Time and Time Reflects the Pain"
(Theology 50.00)
'Like a shot of heroin straight through the main vein!'
'And, it's never ending!'
'Quite often pretending?'
'And, in appearance?'
"A Parents Worst Nightmare!"
...
'Yes my dear, let me make one thing perfectly clear?'
'It was 1988 and the location 9th Street Shipbottom, New Jersey.'
(Part of an Eighteen, Mile, Barrier Island)
'With twelve communities entitled Long Beach Island.'
"No Man is an Island"
'So, no longer alone.'
'I was already well on my way.'
'Yes, into the first fifth of my Twenty, year, marriage.'
...
'I was only Thirty-two, years, old with a family of four daughters and one son.'
'And now Fanstorian Reviews?'
'This story has just begun?'
...
Note: 'Since my wife Carolyn was light-skinned and a strawberry blonde.'
'She would burn!'
'And, she would not go to the beach a second time.'
(Since that day)
...
'So, I would take the children alone.'
'But, I waited until the two girls.'
(Nicole Megan and Kyle Erin my stepdaughters)
...
'So, as they got a little bit older, I got a little bit bolder!'
'And, then of course, Jason and Corinne were almost four and five.'
...
'But before this would get to this point...
'And, that day on the beach?'
'It was all of us!'
'Now occasionally at low tide, there was a large sandbar approximately one football field away.'
'And, it might seem a long distance?'
'And, you first need to go through the breakers.'
'But to me it was nothing but old hat!'
...
'So, I told Jason, he was only going on four.'
'Put your arms around my neck and hold on tight!'
Note: 'He has a very strong grip for a child!'
...
'Hence, I felt that he could handle it.'
'And, I only had to get him through the first breaker!'
'And, as we started our five, minute, journey.'
'My wife Carolyn realized this and started screaming having a "Canary Fit!"
...
'And, you know what?'
'God was with us that day!'
'And, as we stood out there all alone.'
'And, looked back at all the people on the beach?'
'He was no longer a little Man!'
'Now my only son Jason was
"The Tallest Man in the *World!"
Approximate Word Count: 444.






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*World: noun
Earth, planet.
Note: 'To give this beautiful story a little bit more meaning.'
'About Fourteen, years, later.'
'My now Eighteen, year, old, son Jason Richard Smrkovsky '
'Would be involved, as a passenger, in a terrible car accident.'
'And then 17 hours later....
...
'To learn more about Organ-Tissue Donations!'
Simply contact my dearest friend Lara S. Moretti the L.S.W. with
"The Gift of Life" Philadelphia,Pennsylvania At 1-800-DONORS-1.
...
Special thanks goes out first, as always, to Heavenly Father and His only Son Jesus Christ.
Fanstory and Tom the Administrator.
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