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    Riding The Whirlwind
    Riding The Whirlwind
    Riding The Whirlwind
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    Riding The Whirlwind

    By Darrel Bird

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    A man who suffers from depression moves his family to Mist Oregon.As he fights depression and
    Desperate for work he finds a job in the timber industry.Life is not yet through dealing him blows as he tries to measure up to his new job.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateJun 8, 2011
    ISBN9781458027320
    Riding The Whirlwind
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    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

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      Riding The Whirlwind - Darrel Bird

      Riding the Whirlwind

      By

      Darrel Bird

      Copyright 2011 by Darrel Bird

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This e-book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental.

      Riding the Whirlwind

      Part One

      Paul Gilford was a failure. He was shy, so he failed to make friends with girls, he failed to make his dad proud, and he never heard the words I love you from his dad. He dropped out of high school; he failed at that. He did get his G.E.D., join the service, and manage to get an honorable discharge after three full years and go to college, but he knew in his heart he had really failed at that too. Paul Gilford got good at failing; if he wasn’t good at anything else, he was good at that.

      He got married and had children, and he tried to start a TV business following college, but he failed at that too when he got down in his back and couldn’t open the store. He failed at jobs, not because he couldn’t do anything he put his mind to, but because he was driven to fail, so he would quit them and move on.

      Finally, he moved his family to a quaint little community near Oregon’s Columbia River.

      It was a

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