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A New Chance – Chapter III

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The Lawyer’s Family

            Chance wasn’t sure if he was dreaming or not.  This had to be a dream and any moment he was going to wake up cold and uncomfortable under the overpass. He expected to wake up when the guard came to get him out of his cell.  Surely, he was about to wake up when he saw Andy waiting for him.  Instead of waking up, he climbed into Andy’s Ford and they left the detention center together.  He finally convinced himself he wasn’t dreaming and fully awake but he waited for the catch.  If it was real, there was going to be a catch.  This was not how things worked out for Chance Bell.  Maybe Andy was taking him home to work?  Maybe Chance was going to work out his debt in some form of labor?  That made the most sense to him.

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Thicker than Water

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If you have been alive for more than a minute, you might have heard this saying a time or two: blood is thicker than water. If you have, you are nodding your head. If you haven’t, let me explain. This has become the obligatory theme of families suggesting that a family member should always take precedence over anyone else. Family should always come first! Family should be above everyone else! I might have already lost a reader or two that might have experience this is not always a truth to adhere to. In a perfect world, this would be a fundamental truth. But you and I both know this is not a perfect world. It has become more of a you choose your family for the most part. So it might surprise you, as it did me, the original saying and meaning of this adage.

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Other Things I Know

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Monday is my grandma Tommie’s 101st birthday. Even though she has been gone for 59 years (long before there was a ck in the works) I still try to remember the day. Out of my four grandparents, her story always seemed the most tragic. Not that any of the others had it easy, mind you, they all experienced their fair share of life’s vicissitudes. But hers just always hit me a little harder. Last month, I shared what little I know about my paternal grandma. Now I’m going to share what I know about my maternal grandma.

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The truth of the matter…

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I don’t have favorite people. Sure, there are some people I would rather spend more time with than others. There are some people who have traits and mannerisms that fall below my personal standard of annoyance. I’m not a snob. We all have an unspoken standard we measure people with. If a person happens to fall short of our measurement we fault them with a personality defect. What we are really saying though is that they didn’t meet our standard of non-annoyance. It’s true. In the back of our mind we are always judging others to see if they “make the cut.” So, no I don’t have favorites but I do have people who are a constant in my life.

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