Chewy's Chest

By David Crain

Step into the world of Chewy, a five year old boy growing up on a farm back in the fiftys. Follow Chewy as he goes through difficult times learning to deal with the loss of a loved one and the discovery of things hidden. Watch Chewy as he goes from a boy lost in tragedy to a boy that finds long lost family secrets from the past that help to bring him out of his shell and back into the world with his dad.

As Chewy struggles with the loss of his mother his father not only struggles with the loss of his wife and soul mate he struggles with his young son hiding from the world that took his mom. As a father, Chewys dad must show undying love, patience, understanding and support. And he soon learns just how innocent but yet grown up a five year old can be.

As Chewy steps out of his shell and into a world of make believe, or so his father thought, Chewy not only discovers piece of mind but he discovers things from the Green families past that will amaze the world and save the day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491700389

David Crain

David Crain is a first time author, father of six and grandfather of sixteen. He lives on beautiful Whidbey Island in Washington State. It was his wonderful family who inspired him to write this story. He loves camping and riding the beautiful back roads of Washington on his Harley.

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Chewy’s

Chest

David Crain

iUniverse LLC

Bloomington

Chewy’s Chest

Copyright © 2013 by David Crain.

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iUniverse rev. date: 07/23/2013

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It was a warm spring day in Kansas 1953. There was a light breeze blowing, birds were singing and it was about as pleasant a day as you could dream up. A beautiful day but a sad day for all those in attendance at the funeral of a young woman who was loved and respected by all who knew her. It was a day as beautiful as the person, who friends and family had come to say good bye to. She was the twenty-four year old mother to a five year old boy and wife to a man she had loved since junior high school.

You know, one of those kinds of loves that seemed destined to begin early in life and last an eternity. Such was the life of Rose and Duffy Green and their son Charlie. They were married right out of high school and a baby the next year. Duffy a farmer and Rose the kind of woman who never knew the words quit or can’t and seemed to make everyone around her want to do their best and be the kind of person she was. It was her love of people and life that made saying good bye so hard for those who loved her especially Duff and Chewy. A child of a friend couldn’t say Charlie and it always came out Chewy and it kind of stuck from there on out.

It was a tragic day in Harper County when a truck hauling hay crossed the center line and hit Rose head on and took her life. It was especially hard for Chewy when he got the news that his mother had died. That was the day that Chewy seemed to close, his ears and eyes to the world around him. Duff was the only person that Chewy would even talk to after that tragic day and that was only when his dad would be trying to let him know that he missed his mother the same as he did and that he needed Chewy to be there for him and help him be strong like he was.

It seemed that, over night, the farm suddenly became such a huge and overwhelming job that Duff often had his doubts that he could go on without Rose by his side. Rose wasn’t just Duffs’ wife she was his best friend, his soul mate, the love of his life, and so many other things that one seems to forget about that a wife does every single day of her life. Things that she doesn’t tell you she did but things that she did because she always did her part and never ask for any thanks in return. A selfless kind of person who never thinks of themselves because they are too busy caring for the ones around them, all of this while being a farmers’ wife and the mother to a five year old with more energy than you would think one small child could have.

Duff really felt the pressure when he had to do the simplest things like paying bills and buying groceries. And he learned right away that you should never buy groceries when you were hungry. And at first