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    The Seven Veils
    The Seven Veils
    The Seven Veils
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    The Seven Veils

    By Donald R. Lunsford Sr. and Donald R. Lunsford III

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    The story begins in a small Texas hill country town of Llano. The main character, Robert Rhodes, is the editor of the local newspapers and a member of the city council. He was a decorated World War l hero, which is the prime reason he was accepted by the cliquish citizens of the tiny berg. It had been eight years since he had been discharged after receiving the Purple Heart medal for being injured in the battle of Chatel-Chehery near the Argonne Forest.
    On a moonless summer night, a bronze statue, without any warning or fanfare, appeared on the town square while the towns occupants slept. After the mysterious arrival of the nude life-size bronze lady holding an infant had manifested itself in between the turn-of-the-century county courthouse and the WWI doughboy statue erected in honor of the veterans from Llano County who gave their lives in Europe, the city government was left with little time to do anything else but to deal with the fury of their religious constituents. They, with their superstitions and religious prejudicial minds, were holding the city commission accountable for the sinful nude woman exposing herself shamelessly on the Town Square.
    The Llano city government consisted of a mayor and six council members, and each of their lives will be directly affected by the presence of the illicit statue blatantly displaying itself on the courthouse lawn. The unexplained visit by the statue of the naked young woman and child did more than ignite the anger of the religious communityit started the metamorphosis of each of the board members lives. Each member of the city council viewed the statue in a different light. As their lives took on a new beginning, it started in motion a change that would affect not only each member of the city commission but everyone they were connected to.
    The ripple of the rising tidal waters of social responsibility and reform were beginning to become apparent in the little hill country town and would soon be lapping on the pink granite steps of the Texas Capital Statehouse in Austin.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 1, 2014
    ISBN9781496939531
    The Seven Veils
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    Donald R. Lunsford Sr.

    He was born to a sharecropper couple in rural Oklahoma in 1936. He acquired a love of literature by the young age of nine and composed his first poem in the fourth year of grade school. Married his high school sweetheart in December after graduation. He became a trades person while raising his family. He and his wife ran their own heating and air-conditioning business until they reached their late forties, sold the business and all of their land-based possessions, boarded their sailboat at the Port of Catoosa east of Tulsa, Oklahoma. They then spent the better part of the next twenty years living aboard and cruising the Caribbean. Making up for his lack of a formal education, he brings to the table his colorful diverse lifestyle and his willingness to share his unique lifetime experiences as an avid reader and student of humanity. After he composed his memoirs, he started his first novel at the age of seventy-six. He and his devoted soul mate will celebrate their sixty years together in December of 2014 in their native state.

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