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  Excerpt from my novel FATE A Second Chance for Moses   As the boy grew, his grandfather instilled in Moses a love of books and storytelling, mixed with just enough religious teaching to get by ... enough for the boy to decide for himself what to do with it. His fate had brought him into the world through two religious fanatics, his parents, only to be raised and taught by an idealist grandfather who saw himself to be a writer trapped in a teaching job that merely helped put food on the table. For some years, the old man taught the basics of all subjects in missionary schools across South America, a calling he once shared with his self-denying wife, a woman who mistook sacrifice for virtue and lived as though joy were a trespass. Her devotion was more to suffering itself than to God Himself, and she carried that burden as if it were her proof of grace. However, she eloped with a younger man from the mission, l...

The Story of Wayward Geor ge By DAF  < Excerpt from my novel FATE >    It W as How H e S aw H imself ... After the tragic loss of his parents, young George's grandfather took it upon himself to fund his grandson's future education in  supporting his aspiration to become a doctor.   The young George's wish   to enter the medical field stemmed not from a sense of loyalty to his deceased father but rather from a deep-seated obligation to rectify the harm his father inflicted on his mother , who was fully aware of the destructive effects of  l audanum on the mind   at the time.  Having observed the profound and tragic impact of  l audanum on  his mother's  mental health, George felt a responsibility to take action against the scourge of addiction .   He understood that the opiate, which had  begun as  a source of solace for his  mother , only to be trappe...