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“Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Dương Văn Dũng,” said Gramps proudly, leading with his family name.
“Don’t worry about me, con gái.” He often called her that—daughter.
A patroller will climb the lift tower and secure a rope to the lift cable with something called a T-seat, which is a one-person chair without legs.
About a month after Milo had started kindergarten three years ago, he’d started complaining of stomach aches, lost his appetite, and was too tired to play with his friends at school. Then dark patches on his elbows, knees, and the back of his neck had appeared.
The hospital had run a battery of labs on Milo’s cortisol, potassium, sodium, and ACTH levels before giving the diagnosis of Addison’s disease. Milo’s adrenal glands didn’t make enough cortisol on their own. Since cortisol regulated the stress response in the body, lifelong treatment to replace the hormone was critical.
“Otsego is about three miles east,” Noah said. “That’s the closest town.”
“I’m home for Christmas break, visiting my parents in Dowagiac. It’s like, almost an hour from here.”
His truck still smelled like grease and his favorite pho soup—it smelled like Gramps.
bun cha dipped in fish sauce
stories of his boyhood in Vietnam, his experiences as a Vietname...
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“Gramps and Gran always keep a sleeping bag, flares, a flashlight, toolbox, shovel, trail mix and water, and a battery-operated lantern in their cars. Oh, and kitty litter. Luckily, Gran always has extra with her five freaking cats.”
“The federal EMP commission predicted up to 90 percent of the population would die off within a year.”
dreck?”
She didn’t like kids. They were all annoying little devil monkeys. This one wasn’t horrible, though.
“Why aren’t you helping the law enact their draconian orders?”
Water-related diseases still kill over three million people a year around the world.”
“It’s a waste of precious fuel to boil so much water. All you need is ordinary Clorox bleach. A three-quart bottle of six-percent sodium hypochlorite costs about two dollars, and will treat nearly forty-eight hundred gallons of clear water. A drop per pint is the recipe.”
“Remember, that’s clear water. For cloudy river water, tell ’em to filter it through a clean cloth like a T-shirt first and double the bleach. Then let it sit for an hour or so.
The counties along the southwestern border of Michigan were known as the fruit belt. The softly rolling hills, sandy and fertile soil, and proximity to Lake Michigan created a favorable climate for fruit production. Grapes, peaches, apples, pears, plums, and strawberries all flourished here.
He seized a hank of her hair
