The Interesting Adventures Of Doc.

  In my wayward youth, I lived at two different children’s homes. The first home I live at kicked me out. I spent two months in detention until my caseworker found a new place for me. He took me there for an overnight visit. The place was cool to me, so the next week I became a resident. The next day at lunch in the dining room, a girl handed me a note and told me who it was from a girl named Dru. Once I got back to the boy’s cottage, I read the note, and it said that she likes what she sees and wants me to get with her. I was not having it. I wanted nothing to do with her. Nothing was wrong with her and I was not stuck up. She was without a doubt the best looking girl there. She was also a bit enigmatic. Somehow, I have always been lucky that way. Even in adulthood, I attracted the ones who were a bit off and not in the mainstream. I have never minded. I had no intention of getting involved with Dru. I hung out with Mary, who was from the same city as me, so it was c...

  The kids at Wernle were playing softball in back of the main building. This was a normal event during the summer. The staff did their best to keep the boys and girls apart, but Doc was always looking for cracks in their armor. He spent long periods of time locked up in the quiet room because of his activities. He sometimes got caught but most times he did not. He knew the best time to talk to one of the girls was right after the softball game because the kids headed back to the main building and boys cottage like a crazy mob of wild lunatics, and the staff could not keep track of everyone. Dru had made it known that Doc belonged to her, and she had overcome all his defenses. It was the first time this had happened to him, and their was nothing he could do about it. On this summer’s day, while playing softball he was plotting a way to talk to Dru alone. Halfway through the game he walked up to Dru and whispered to her to meet him under the kitchen porch after the gam...

  Doc was an adventurous kid. He was mischievous, and he liked the girls. The staff at the children’s home did not care for his midnight creeps. He was living at the children’s home because he left home at 13 because of a bad family situation. I imagine every kid has their breaking point. Doc worked down in the barn and the pasture taking care of the horses and cows. Taking care of horses and cows is not an undemanding job. To do it right requires hard work and you must like animals. His counselor assigned him that job to keep him out of trouble. On more than a few occasions, his friend Mary would sneak down to spend some time with him. Other times, he would sneak over to meet Dru under the kitchen porch. He got away with it most of the time, but he got caught once in a while. The punishment for breaking the rules was getting thrown into the quiet room. The quiet room was just that, a dirty room with a dirty mattress on the floor. There were two rooms. None had a toil...

  As a little boy, I lived in the small football town with two wonderful people who were not my parents. Mrs. Rodgers was my aunt, and Jimmy was her husband. I lived with them because my mother could not care for me, and my dad wanted nothing to do with me. Mrs Rodgers was a kind woman who taught me many things about living off the land and surviving in the wild. Mrs. Rodgers passed when I was five, and Jimmy then took over my care and would not let my dad’s family mess with me. Jimmy was shady. He had a habit of taking me to pool halls, juke joints and sometimes brothels where I would play with the other kids. It might seem like a bad thing for a kid, but that was an education I would never receive in school. Jimmy passed five years later, and my dad rushed down to move me to Toledo, Ohio. It is my belief that he did so to keep my mother from me. I Mr. Moore came to the house where I lived and made me give away my dog and toys. I felt much anger about having to give...