Copyright © 2022 Gayle Porter and Stephen Porter.
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ISBN: 978-1-957907-00-0 (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-957907-01-7 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 978-1-957907-02-4 (Ebook)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022904475
Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Names, characters, and places are products of the author’s imagination.
Book design by Stephen Porter.
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To our children, Nathaniel and Elizabeth,
Your enthusiasm to see the work completed, and your polite begging to hear each new chapter, kept us going. We started this book with the desire to provide a good story for you—something that would inspire you to learn and do hard things, face failure with creativity, and pull together in faithful friendship when times are difficult. We finished this book because you lived out these qualities.
Thanks for your patience, hard work, and diligence-in both homework and chores-so that we would have time to write this story for you.
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