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05:51:01 am on January 17, 2008 | # |
I’d like to write this alternating segments with someone perhaps.
- young man experiences tragic death of father — there is a hole in his identity.
- he patches over the hole with athletics, but is injured.
- he fills this void by entering the military shortly after september 11th.
- a friend dies in his arms; he escapes by chance
- he returns home after two tours of duty and joins a church; meets the love of his life; has a child
- his child dies of cancer — loses the identity of father: a role thickly plastered over his other losses (gaping holes).
- escapes into alcohol — on the verge of suicide he has a defining moment — casts aside all the layers of loss and broken identity.
- becomes a peaceful shell
julius 7:01 am on January 18, 2008 | #
I think it would be cool to offer a counterpoint to the entries from the man’s perspective with that of whoever is dying or someone else central to his life or that moment in time.
jesseprano 10:12 am on January 22, 2008 | #
a comment-which? I don’t see it, sorry.
admin 10:28 am on January 22, 2008 | #
oh, on wordchasm, i mean. there should be some kind of link that says, “register your commentvar.”