Article: Solace.

Thinking back, I guess talking Mom into it was the most difficult part. I was 15 that fall, based on the best-guess estimate of 1974 as the year I'm relating, but I felt that negotiating the rough and tumble streets of Philadelphia during the four years since my father disappeared somehow qualified me for bigger things. Mother was decidedly overprotective. I was her only child--all she had to cling to after life had delaminated so completely. I didn't understand that at the time, of course. I simply wanted to go bowhunting, more than I'd ever wanted anything before or since. She couldn't understand I was infinitely safer in the wilds than wandering the streets of South ...

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