Little Bobby O'malley

By John Jacobs

This book reflects some of the fond memories the author had of the area as was in 1949, and describes some of the rapid changes that took place thereafter.
The undeveloped area that extended from his house to the beach reminded him of the jungle in a Tarzan movie he once saw, and his imagination carried him on many journeys of adventure through those jungles, where he was master of his own happiness for that brief time in his life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781493103652

John Jacobs

John Jacobs has been a traveller since the age of eight years. After dropping out of university he spent two and a half years backpacking around the world, working in an iron ore mine in Australia and a farm in Manitoba. Returning to England he gained a qualification as an electronic engineer. Often travelling to places in the throes of disaster or conflict to assist UN and aid organisations with their communications. He has been to more than 85 countries; always interested in people and with an eye for the humorous and bizarre. In this book, he recounts having been shot at in Zaire, enjoying generous hospitality in Kazakhstan, being propositioned in Liberia, working with Kosova Albanians after the attempted Serb ‘ethnic cleansing’, nearly freezing to death in Israel and visiting Libya during the Arab Spring. He is a subject matter expert in High Frequency radio communications and has written a technical handbook on the subject.

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Little Bobby O’Malley

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Written and Illustrated by

John Jacobs

Copyright © 2013 by John Jacobs.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 09/26/2013

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Contents

Chapters:

1   Daddy Comes Home

2   A Story of Two Heroes

3   The Move

4   School Starts

5   The Bee Adventure

6   Bobby Meets a Friend

7   An Amazing Rescue

8   A Life for a Life

9   Changes

Chapter 1

Daddy Comes Home

At the age of three, Bobby didn’t know anything about the world, but he already thought he must be the most important person in it. His every need was taken care of by a woman called Mommy. There were also two bigger girls who both had the title of sister. He didn’t know when he learned it, but he knew his name was Bobby and his sisters’ names were Pat and Beth. Besides Mommy, Pat, and Beth, whose job it seemed was to praise and take care of him, there were many other ladies who appeared from time to time in his world to offer praise and exclaim how adorable he was.

Suddenly one day, a man appeared in the house with a dog. Bobby had not had much experience with men or dogs before, but this man and his dog seemed very important. His mommy and sisters were hugging and kissing the man and the house was soon filled with people showering him with attention. Finally, Bobby was lifted up by Mommy.

This is your daddy, Bobby, his mommy said with a happy smile as she handed him to this strange man. Bobby twisted his body to reach back for Mommy but turned back when Daddy began to speak.

What a handsome big boy you are. At last your daddy gets to hold you.

Here were two words Bobby never heard anyone use before when describing him; handsome and big. Everyone else used the terms cute and little.

What a cute little boy. He looks just like his daddy. Bobby heard that comment many times, but Daddy seemed to be an imaginary person. Now there was a real person to connect to the name and Bobby suddenly became very curious about this man everyone was calling his daddy. For the next two years, Bobby would get to spend a lot of time with his father and learn a lot about this new man in his life.

To this point in his life, Bobby lived with only his mother and sisters in a housing project in Detroit. At first, auto workers and their families lived there, but now it