tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647375329441540472024-03-13T11:09:06.498-07:00Dan Duffy, AuthorA journey of writing a memoir about my brother, whom I will always consider a casualty of the post-Vietnam era, missing in America for forty-five years and where that has left me today. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463476731304895775noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564737532944154047.post-76263127632854894452018-10-29T08:46:00.001-07:002018-10-29T08:46:47.066-07:00"Brother, Brother: A Memoir" Book Trailer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In the fall of ‘64, Bill helped Mom get a new used
car; a </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’51 Merc. At least it was new to us.
We called it the tank because of its oblong shape and size. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every time
we got a new used car, we’d follow the same ritual. First, we’d wash the
outside and vacuum the cloth bench seats and carpet. After the car was clean,
Mom would move it to a shady area under a tree. Then, the real work began. Rich
would take the lid off a can of Turtle Wax Simonize. Rich would put wax on a
sponge and apply it to the fender using a circular motion. He’d stop each time after
putting on a patch the size of a large pizza. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We gotta
wait a few minutes. Go get an ole tee shirt, Danny,” he said. I ran into our
room and opened our underwear draw. Then, I remembered I had a sweatshirt with
an elbow ripped out.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How about this?”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Grab an arm,” Rich said as we tore it apart. After the wax
turned white, he wiped it off with an outside section of sweatshirt. “Now, let
me have a piece so I can buff it,” he said. I handed him a torn segment of soft
inside cloth and watched as he rubbed the streaks of wax into a brilliant
shine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
continued to smear wax on the sponge and ripped an old tee shirt and towel into
pieces so Rich could finish the job. He showed me how to apply wax to the
chrome and bumpers. Then, buff it. By late afternoon, we were done. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Wow! The car looks brand new,” I said.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my shoulder. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Even though the </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’51
Merc was clean and polished, it was still thirteen years old. Long ago they
stopped making cars with windshields made out of two panes of glass. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we drove through town, I’d slump down in the backseat hoping that someone I
knew wouldn’t recognize me. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Smiling, I
shook my head and gazed at Rich. He was looking back at me. His smirk reminded me of the time he and I
stood beside an old ringer washing machine. Someone from a neighborhood
apartment abandoned it in our gravel backyard. It was in no-man</span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">’s-land, behind the
string of stores and apartments and the shopping center parking lot. That relic
sat there with weeds all around it——like a tombstone in a neglected graveyard.
We examined it closely, twisting and turning the agitator back and forth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">“It moves,” Rich said. “Get inside, Danny. I’ll push you.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="line-height: 32px;">To read more of this segment, visit my website www.danduffyauthor.com where an excerpt is posted </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">from "Brother, Brother" by Dan Duffy</span></span></b></div>
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b>Atlantic City, New Jersey-August 28, 1957, </b></i></span><i><b>Dad, Rich, Sue, Me, and Ray </b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b>"I smelled briny salt air and from that day forward referred to it simply
as fresh air. But, another thought came to mind as I inhaled deeply. I recalled
a family outing to the beach in Atlantic City, several summers before. I was
splashing in the waves with Rich and Sue. I remembered the feel of Dad’s strong
arms as he scooped them under my armpits, lifting me over wave after wave as
they marched to shore. “One more time?,” I asked once again, looking up at my
Dad’s smiling face."</b></i></span><br />
<i><strong><br /></strong></i>
<i><strong>Chasing Shadows by Dan Duffy </strong></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">January 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">These past
four years have been pivotal for me—directed on the future—marrying Helene,
moving from New Jersey to Rockport, Massachusetts and beginning life anew as
Innkeepers at the Beech Tree Bed and Breakfast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">It’s also
been a time of personal reflection focused on my past—exploring memories of
growing up as the middle-child in a family of five kids with my mother becoming
the head of the household in 1959. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I’ve given
much thought to the forces that shaped my life, influencing me to become the
man I am today. And, I’ve been putting pencil-to-paper then fingers-to-keyboard
to transform these memories into a memoir. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I’ll be
using this blog to chronicle key points in my life and in writing my book,
Chasing Shadows. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">One of the
most difficult things I ever did was to clean out my mother’s home after she
died in June of 2012. I traveled to the Jersey Shore for two days of non-stop
work—looking through all of her belongings and making split second decisions
about what I was going to save, give to charity or throw out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The most
important mementos I saved were photographs—black and white and color images of
family milestones and events. My first blog photo is one that triggered a
memory—a day trip to the Jersey Shore. My mother took the photo and wrote on
the back, Atlantic City-August 28, 1957. We’re standing on the boardwalk with
the beach, ocean and Steel Pier in the background. Dad is standing behind us.
Ray was three, I was six, Sue was nine and Rich was ten. Within a year Eileen would be born. We look happy, squinting into the late summer sunlight with
Dad’s arms around us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">We didn’t
realize at the time that this would be the first (and last) family vacation that
we’d ever experience with him. </span></span></div>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463476731304895775noreply@blogger.com0