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There are always two sides to every point of view. Joshua is getting ready to graduate from his final year in high school. He has always lived in a small colonial town in New England that rests up against the Atlantic Ocean that leads as far as the eye can see. He has applied to leave friends and looks forward to new adventures in a university in the middle of the state of Illinois. Another student, Autumn, is graduating from high school and will be attending a large university. She has spent her whole life on a small farm in the middle of the state of Iowa. She has always worked on the farm with her family. Leaving the farm is a very difficult decision for both the farm and the experiences outside the farm. The experiences will be difficult and there will be disagreements to conquer. It all started with two future students wondering who this person is sitting next to the other in the first lecture hall.

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Publié par	Outskirts Press
Date de parution	20 juillet 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781977266835
Langue	English

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Joshua and Autumn Just the Beginning All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2023 Richard Shaw v1.0
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE: THE NEW KID IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
1: FATHER AND SON GRAPE SODA
2: NEW PATHS TO EXPLORE
3: A NEW BEGINNING
4: A ROAD TRIP FROM HOME TO UNIVERSITY
5: PROMISES MADE
6: HOME FOR THE SUMMER
7: JOSHUA’S SUMMER JOB
8: WHO AM I?
9: A BOY BECOMES A MAN
10: JUST A PHONE CALL
11: YESTERDAY’S WORLD
12: SALLY, AN OLD FRIEND
13: LAST ROWBOATS OF THE SEASON
14: LEAVING OLD FRIENDS
15: THE LONG DRIVE
16: LOCKED-AWAY MEMORIES
17: LAST IMAGES OF HOME DISAPPEAR IN THE REAR WINDOW
18: JOSHUA CONQUERS THE MOUNTAINS
19: ENTERING CAMPUS / LETTERS
20: CATCHING UP BACK AT THE UNIVERSITY
21: PULLING DOWN THE WALLS
22: MEETING TWO PROFESSORS
23: MAKING CHOICES FOR THE FUTURE
24: CHANGING PLANS
25: ROAD TRIP: JOSHUA AND AUTUMN
26: WHAT TO EXPECT
27: FAMILY GATHERING
28: A NEW MORNING
29: A DOCTOR’S CONFERENCE WITH THE DOCTOR
30: A WEEK SHOULD DO IT
31: FATHER’S KNEE SURGERY
32: FISHING BOAT
33: LONG RIDE BACK TO THE UNIVERSITY
34: JOSHUA PACKED HIS BAGS TO LEAVE
35: A LONG RIDE WITH QUESTIONS
36: LETTERS LOST AND FOUND
37: BREAKING POINT
38: MY WORLD AND YOUR WORLD
39: THE END OF SEMESTER WAS FAST APPROACHING
40: JOSHUA VISITS AUTUMN’S FAMILY
41: SECOND SEMESTER, FINAL YEAR
42: AUTUMN VISITS JOSHUA’S FAMILY
43: RELATIONSHIP STRENGTHENING VERY BUSY ON CAMPUS
44: THANKSGIVING EXPERIENCE (JOSHUA SURVIVES THE BARN)
45: THANKSGIVING STORIES AND NEW FRIENDS
46: THE PUSH AND PULL OF THEIR PARENTS
47: THE BREAK FOR THE APPROACHING CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
48: AUTUMN MEETS JOSHUA’S PARENTS AND NEW ENGLAND
49: CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY
50: AUTUMN AND FUTURE MOTHER-IN-LAW
51: AUTUMN FLIES BACK TO THE UNIVERSITY, JOSHUA STAYS
52: LIFE CHANGES
53: GETTING NEAR THE END OF THE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE
54: DARLA’S DINER
55: THE UNIVERSITY IN SIGHT
56: RECONNECTING
57: ROAD TRIP TO THE FARM
58: VISITING AUTUMN’S FAMILY FARM
59: LIFE-CHANGING EVENTS
60: LIVING TOGETHER
61: LIVING LIKE A COUPLE
62: MEETING WITH PROFESSORS
63: A DAY WORKING ON THE FARM
64: SHARING APARTMENT
65: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN JOSHUA AND AUTUMN
66: ONE DAY’S ESCAPE
67: TIME TOGETHER
68: THE TEN-YEAR REUNION
69: TO TRAVEL BACK IN TIME
70: A LONG ROAD HOME
71: THE INVITATION TO THE REUNION
72: LIVING TOGETHER
73: RETURNING TO THE UNIVERSITY
74: THE FARM IS GONE
75: ONE LAST TIME AT THE FARM
76: A VISIT HOME SHARING MEMORIES
77: FAMILY GETS TOGETHER AND SHARES STORIES
78: THE FUNERAL
79: THE WEDDING
80: ONE DAY BEFORE THE WEDDING
81: JOSHUA AND AUTUMN MEET WITH THE MINISTER
82: WHAT IS NEXT?
83: TWO YEARS LATER
84: FINALLY, HOME
85: JUST THE BEGINNING
86: THE STORM
87: FILLING IN THE BLANKS
88: HOME AGAINTHE CIRCLE IS COMPLETE
89: LIVING IN DUST AND THE SMELL OF SAWDUST
90: AUTUMN CALLED TO HELP WITH SURVIVORS OF THE STORM
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PROLOGUE
THE NEW KID IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Boxes were placed in the center of the living room, and the kitchen materials were stacked on the shelves in the kitchen. Joshua stepped outside on a brightly colored Saturday morning while his parents attempted to figure out what was in the boxes all over the house. The house sat back a little from the street, and a couple of trees were recently planted in the front yard.
Walking out the door, I looked up and down the street. There was no one on the street. I stood leaning against one of the trees recently planted by the people who lived in the house before we moved in. I stood with my arms crossed on my chest; I thought about friends left behind in a small town in the mountains.
Moving from one town to another is difficult, leaving your home in one state and moving to another state as a seventh grader was difficult for me and my family.
On a cool frosty Saturday morning, I crawled out of bed and greeted the sun drifting in through my one window facing the east. I brushed my teeth, combed my hair, and stopped moving. There were voices in the kitchen that were louder than usual. My parents were sitting at the kitchen table sipping their coffee and facing a pile of blueberry pancakes sitting in the middle of the table.
I could tell that my mother had tears in her eyes. She kept dabbing her eyes as she finished her cup of coffee.
My father held his coffee cup with both hands and leaned in on the table, stabbing another pancake and bacon.
“I have told you that I cannot make enough money to keep us going with my lumberyard and the little money you make at the factory in town. We have to leave our families and our relatives.”
It was about the last bit of conversation that I heard as I walked into the kitchen, thought Joshua as he sat down at the table; the only sounds were the sounds of a spoon stirring a little sugar into his coffee mug. My father got up and walked out of the house. I could hear the door slam on the old Mack truck sitting in the yard. I ran to the window.
“Mom, where is Dad going? He was going to take me on a ride in the old green Mack truck. We were going to ride up Route Two on the mountain.” All I remember is that my father did not talk to me today. On the trip up to the top of the mountain, I remember looking out my window and seeing the road just seemed to drop off on my side of the truck. I held on to my seat in the truck.
“Dad, who is moving?”
There was a long silence in the old truck crawling up the mountain. I sat back with my feet barely touching the floor of the old cab. Finally, the old truck slipped into the wooded bed of leaves and tree branches cut up and left off to the side of the foundation for the cabin that would be completed in the next three or four weeks. The inside would take more time.
I sat looking out the truck’s window as the crew unloaded the old truck. For a few minutes, I thought about the friends that I had made during kindergarten and first through sixth grade. I thought about never seeing my friends again. I folded my arms across my chest and let a few tears slip down my cheeks.
Joshua sat in the truck, looking at the men working on unloading the truck.
Joshua’s father opened the door to the truck and slid in next to Joshua. He had turned away from his father, looking out the passenger-side window.
“Dad, why do we have to move? I will not be able to see my friends. What about the lumber yard? We won’t be there anymore. The last time was a father and son conversation in the truck cab. Joshua’s father opened his truck door and jumped down on the leaves in their early fall colors.
1
FATHER AND SON GRAPE SODA
Joshua’s dad pulled over into a parking space of Roger’s Burgers and Milkshakes. Joshua turned and looked at his father.
“Do you remember the last time we were here? You chose a grape soda and a hot dog with everything on it. If I remember correctly, you and I shared our French fries.”
They had moved from a small town in Massachusetts to a small town in Bedford, Connecticut. The weeks slipped by, and the move was completed with some men who worked in the lumber yard. The new move was located on South Union Street in a new community. Across the street, Joshua noticed all the trees. The trees made Joshua a little homesick, missing his friends so far away.

I went out to our front yard and leaned against a small tree. Along came a kid from across the street walking toward me, the newcomer in the neighborhood. The kid walked across the street and stood next to me. Neither one said anything, just stood looking at the trees.
“Name’s Jimmy, I live across the street. What grade will you be in when we go back to school? I am going to seventh grade, how about you?” Jimmy looked at the new kid and dropped the stick and turned to Joshua.
“I am going to be in the seventh grade also. Do you know who the teacher will be?” “Won’t know till we start school in a week or so,” said Jimmy as he kicked some dirt in the street.
Joshua turned to Jimmy, breaking a small twig he had in his hand. “Well, you want to walk in the woods? I go through there all the time. There is a large ledge you can sit on and see most kids in the neighborhood. Have you ever walked in the woods?” Jimmy stopped talking, picked up a twig, and twirled it around in his hand, waiting for Joshua to say something.
The summer days were beginning to fade away. The summer heat was retreating, getting ready for the fall season.
The school was located at the end of the street. On the first day of school, Joshua got on his bike and rode to the school. He put his bike into the bike pen at the front of the school. Jimmy coasted up to the bike rack. He put his bike away and slapped Joshua on the back as they walked into the school. The principal was an older woman with light purple hair. She stood looking at the teachers and t