Almost Don't Count
Tales of an American Failure
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"Fuck you! You're an idiot! You're wasting your time pissing up a rope with that shit! If you spent half the time reading your school books like you do those joke books you might do something with your life!" This was my father's response when I told him I was going to try performing stand-up comedy. My father was a high school dropout and saying this to his only son - with a 3.4 GPA in his senior year of high school. "Nice," I thought. “Thanks for the vote of confidence!” He never supported my dreams. My dreams were big, but not unreachable. Thirty years later I understood why. But this was then and how things went.
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About the Book
Written in first-person narrative based on actual events, these tales track a man who lived life going Mach II chasing the American Dream of going from rags to riches. Although a common story among the world, the trials and tribulations are anything but. Names and locations have been changed, as well as situations being altered, to protect those involved.
About the Author
After spending his entire life chasing his dreams, enduring one failure after another, never achieving his goals, he wound up with the one thing he never wanted. It turned out to be the only thing that has ever made him happy. With the author being an avid writer throughout his life, writing three books, a dozen short stories, and a few screenplays in all, this is his first to publish.