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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...