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© Copyright 1999 by Sal N. Di Leo
edited by Jane E. Di Leo

 
I
n 1998, a 45-year-old businessman returns after 30 years to the Catholic orphanage outside Chicago that became home to him and his three siblings in 1963. He locates the Head Nun from his time there, living in a nursing home.

See what he discovers about himself when the experience forces him to remember things he had long since forgotten. For the first time, he is forced to reconstruct his life as it really happened, including some of his most difficult years as an adolescent at Boys Town, Nebraska.

Follow him in an aggressive quest for power and money in his 20's as he tries to rise above his past.

Broke and angry in his 30's, he tries to make a name
for himself by launching a movement to preserve President Ronald Reagan's image during the Iran-Contra Arms Hearings in 1986. Discover the impact on Reagan.

Finally, in his late 30's, he is befriended by NFL
Hall of Fame coach Bud Grant, who convinces him to go back to his roots and look for the good. See what he finds.

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"It's about life, courage, disappointments, and redemption."
—Mike Tvrdik

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—Bud Grant