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Parkington Waddell Broughton the Fifth, called Park (Pork by his mother), was a twelve-year-old boy, without a father.
His Father was killed in the Vietnam War when Park was only a baby. His mother had raised him since then.
Park would have done anything to know how and why his father died. But his mother always seemed to refuse to talk about him.
Park could not take it anymore. Other people had father’s everyday. He just couldn’t stop wondering why he couldn’t
have a piece of his. So he would keep badgering his mother to tell him something, but he couldn’t get one thing out of her. Then one day she said, He has- he had a family-maybe it’s time-summer- maybe you can go visit them in the summer. I’ll have to write.” And so she did.
Park waited and waited for the answer until- “They said it would be alright for you to go,” he heard his mother say one night.
At the start of the summer Park was preparing himself for the trip. He took a bus to the bus station, where a man that he thought was a hired man picked him up, but soon found out it was his Uncle Frank, his father’s younger brother.
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That day he found out something that he regretted. They were both crying like lost three year olds returned at last to their mother’s arms. Frank also agreed to continue teaching him. “Yes! Yes! I’m Park! Your Park! I get it!” Then the old man cried harder and pointed at the sky. You shouldn’t have heard it this way. Park kept asking him, “What is it? What do you want?” The old man just pointed at Park and then to himself over and over again, until Park finally understood. While Park was with the old man, he was extremely nervous. His grandfather couldn’t speak so he didn’t say anything back. They both agreed to stay up late that night until after Mrs.
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