Amid the Maples

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Paul was born in ‘37, the son of Maple City’s first illegit i mate child. Because of his father’s illegitimacy, the elitists in his hometown shun him. Although brilliant, his childhood was miserable and worsens when alcoholism claims his father. A second father image teaches Paul to box and run distance. Sports earn him respectability and the enduring friendship of a black athlete, John. He finds love. Paul has found happiness, but his family’s history haunts him. He attacks a pedophile for molesting his sister. After his crime is dis covered, he is forced into the military at seventeen. In the military, he learns his bio logi cal grand father owns a cattle ranch in Montana. After four years, Paul is discharged. Unable to re turn to Maple City, he finds his grand father. After inheriting the ranch and a fortune, he marries. Now, Paul can return to Maple City and avenge his family’s persecutors.