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    Grandfathers
    Grandfathers
    Grandfathers
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    Grandfathers

    Written by John Isaac Jones

    Narrated by James H. Kiser

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    Grandfathers is a heart-warming story of grandfathers and grandsons told in two parts. The first part is set in 1946 and relates the experiences of five-year-old Billy Johnson with his grandfather. The second part is set in 1996 and tells of Billy's experiences with his own five-year-old grandson. What a difference 50 years makes!


    “I like talking to you, Granddaddy,” the child said.

    “I like talking to you, too, little boy,” the grandfather said.

    Suddenly, the child burst into tears and ran to his grandparent.

    “Oh, Granddaddy,” the child sobbed, leaping into his grandfather’s arms. “I love you! I love you! I love you!”

    For a full ten seconds, the child clung to the grandfather’s neck with all his might, shedding huge tears.

    As the grandfather and grandson held one another in a tight embrace, it was if the future was trying to hold on to the past. In his heart, the child knew that someday the big wheel would stop turning in his grandfather’s life. The grandfather also knew that. He knew this child would someday stand over his grave and weep for him even as he had for his own grandfather. That was what made it so terribly sad. Both knew instinctively that nothing could stop the eternal transition from the old to the new. The forward movement of the big wheel was an undeniable certainty. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could stop its forward progress."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Isaac Jones
    Release dateOct 26, 2017
    ISBN9781987172539
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    John Isaac Jones

    John Isaac Jones is a retired journalist currently living at Merritt Island, Florida. For more than thirty years, "John I.," as he prefers to be called, was a reporter for media outlets throughout the world. These included local newspapers in his native Alabama, The National Enquirer, News of the World in London, the Sydney Morning Herald, and NBC television. He is the author of five novels, a short story collection and two novellas.

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