God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues.

If someone tells you something is impossible, make it possible.

This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he__ just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When he planted himself between our father and me that day, an eight-year-old with small fists clenched at his sides, I think I fell in love with my brother.

James is why I never left. I should have left.

Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all.

James __nockout Jimmy_ O__rien, Granite Fall__ very own boxing legend__ title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear __or protection.__y brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging.