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Be always sure you're right-then go ahead.
David Crockett
If life had a second edition, how I would
correct the proofs?
John Clare
BOOK ONE
Chapter 1
The young man listened to his mother's screaming
harangue, but paid scant attention to her shrieking.
It was always the same. Everything bad that had happened
was the fault of Ben Raines. Ben Raines was the
Great Satan. Ben Raines this and Ben
Raines that and Ben Raines must die.
The young man had known for some time that his mother was very
nearly a basket case. But she was still his mother,
and-What was that old saying? Blood is thicker than
water, or something like that.
The young man stepped further back, in order
to better inspect the crowd who listened with rapt
attention to the woman's words. The expression on their
faces was one of love and devotion and fanaticism.