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1 WAS AN only child---~nd so I became an only man.<br > My name is Joshua ~!gg: a joke life played on me, as I am<br >quite small. Five feet, three and three-eighths inches, to be<br >precise. In a world of giants, those eighths are precious to the<br >midget.<br > That was the first of fortune s tricks. There were others.<br >For instance, I was orphaned at the age of three months when<br >my parents were killed in the sudden collapse of a bridge over<br >the Skunk River near Oskaloosa, Iowa. As their pickup truck<br >toppled, I was thrown clear and was found later lying in a<br >clump of laurel, gurgling happily and sucking my toe.<br > People said it was a miracle. But of course they weren t<br >the orphan. Years later, when Roscoe Dollworth was teaching<br >me to be an investigator, he had something to say on the<br >subject. He had just learned that he had a small gastric ulcer,<br >after months of worrying about stomach cancer. Just an ulcer.<br >Everyone told him how lucky he was:<br > "Luck," Roscoe said, "is something that happens to other<br >people."<br > I was raised by my mother s brother and his wife: Philo and<br ><br >
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Tenth Commandment pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024