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MW Kennard

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Mark Kennard lives a quiet life in Southern California with his wife of 27 years and teenage son.

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I worked on this scene last night and then edited it just now. Now I'm so sad for any child who has ever felt this way:

As he had grown and the important things of the narrow world around him had begun to show themselves, with earnest devotion he had tried to do the things that pleased his father. In the beginning he had gathered eggs from the hen house. But then one morning as he hurried back to Read more of this blog post »
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