FORREST WALKER, spared by the end of the Vietnam draft, spends his first few months after high school at hard labor. At summer's end, he escapes a bleak future for the open road. Fate provides Walker with a job of sorts, an indentured servitude. Over the ensuing fall and winter his make or break subsistence in the coulees of the Ocooch Mountains, becomes a soulful rite of passage. He yearns for the opportunity to make a difference.While his body is toughened by arduous labor, his mind is honed by an economy of means, and his heart is forged in the fires of passion. Spring is his readmission to the world extant. Destiny introduces him to winsome RINA, but an inconceivable omission sends her running.Walker's transformative venture ends in extraordinary circumstances. A newly awakened sense of self worth pervades his being, and he is undaunted by the roadblocks he encounters. Truth nurtures forgiveness. His spirit is resolute as he takes to the high road with renewed purpose.
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