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

The dark might be dark, but at least we don__ have to look at ourselves when we__e standing in it.

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.