Service and Homecoming
Family Drama · fiction

The Brass Plate Beyond the Gala

By the time I was nineteen, my father had already planned the next thirty years of my life. Preston Reed believed planning was another word for ownership. He had selected the university before I finished junior year of high school. He had introduced me to alumni before I had taken the SAT. He had even joked at one of his foundation dinners that...

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Genre
Family Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Service and Homecoming

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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