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...next morning, a "very alert officer" from the Daytona Beach Police Department spotted the men's 1988 Pontiac station wagon parked in Daytona Beach early in the morning, Special Agent Bill Cheek of the Jacksonville, Fla., FBI office said in an interview Friday...
...glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested?as was Flannery O?Connor?in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence," says TIME's Paul Gray. "The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: ?Sometimes I try to imagine what it?s like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern.? The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker and all the sufferers in this remarkable collection know it is a cry of pain...
...glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested?as was Flannery O?Connor?in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence," says TIME's Paul Gray. "The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: ?Sometimes I try to imagine what it?s like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern.? The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker and all the sufferers in this remarkable collection know it is a cry of pain...
...think of 40-mile-an-hour winds and zero-degree weather as a big deal," says JOHN FAHNER-VIHTELIC. That's probably because he has endured far worse. In 1977 he lay for 16 days without food, pinned above the dashboard of his station wagon after it plunged 150 ft. off an embankment in Washington State. He escaped with his life (partly by throwing his shirt into a nearby stream and sucking the moisture out of it), but not all of his limbs. The loss of his left leg hasn't slowed the 48-year-old down, though...
...Sundays they would pile the family into their secondhand station wagon and gape at the prosperous neighborhoods of Bellevue, Laurelhurst and Washington Park. "They used to drive by nice areas to show us what you would get if you worked hard and went to school," recalls Frank's younger brother Michael, now the regional sales manager for an online service in Southern California. Each of their children attended college; all but one graduated...