by Chris Rush
25. A Better Man
26. What I Didn’t Know Then
27. The Invitation
28. The Flood
29. Do You Remember Your Past Lives?
30. By the Grace of God
31. The Valley
32. The Biggest Trees on Earth
33. Brief Landings on the Earth’s Surface
34. Rush Brothers Construction
Part V: The Real Deal
35. New Religion
36. St. Granola
37. Mysterious Substance
38. Cottonmouth
39. Black World
40. Waves
41. How Can You Say That?
42. We Are Gathered Here Today
Part VI: One Hundred Pies
43. I Wish I Had a River
Epilogue: The Portrait
Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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Copyright © 2019 by Chris Rush
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First edition, 2019
Photographs of clouds by Richard Oriolo.
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In this memoir, some names and identifying details have been changed. The dialogue is based on my recollection; some dialogue is reconstructed, with a clear knowledge of what transpired. The timeline is occasionally compressed or reordered for clarity. To simplify the narrative, I have created several composite characters. Certain byways were omitted, along with a few people I dearly miss.
