Part (16) It’s a big dangerous world out there

Interlude: Rich Bromely, the young man from a small Pennsylvania town was abruptly introduced to the world, a man’s world, in 1966 when he lost his student classification that deferred him from the draft just as the Vietnamese War was heating up. Rich graduated from Johnstown High School, attended a small community college for two years and met a girl named Brandi. Rich and Brandi met through a mutual friend and attended separate schools, she in upstate New York. They only saw each other occasionally but they both felt the other was the one they wanted to be with for the rest of their lives. They became engaged shortly before Rich enlisted for four years in a special program, a program that would likely keep him out of Viet Nam.

(Miri finally takes some action about her 11 year old son but not before she thinks things through.)

Choices

Chapter 9

FROM THE EDITOR: There is a mystery here. Some of you have guessed... sort of... what it might be. While some things might seem cruel, all may not be as it seems.

We rejoin our teens as they are about to enter the mall. Stick with this story. Regardless of how things might seem, I promise a happy ending.

Now, I am old.
The strange friendless boy whom no one liked or really knew, is now even stranger.
I sit here, alone, in my dark lonely shabby room and look at the dingy walls,

June 14, 2019: It's amazing how things have changed so much in the past 3 years, and it all started with one man's obsession.

Excerpts from the journal of the now deceased Benjamin Takahashi: