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Audio: Chapter 25: A Bright New World

This was the chance I’d been waiting for. My dream was being handed to me on a plate. It was August, amidst a bright new world of sand and sunshine, and the promise of LA stretched before me
By the beach. The author poses in 2007 for a photo by the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles. Coming to Los Angeles was exciting, a time full of dreams. Photo by Jean Horning

Book VI: Depression

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?

And I said, this is my infirmity:

~ Psalm 77, 7-10a

The King James Bible, 1611

What does it take to convince a high school English teacher to up-end his safe, comfortable life teaching in a small, Midwestern community, to toss reality into the air, and to slam all his chips onto the Table of Life, betting his future on a Hollywood dream? Did I long that much to be a Hollywood screenwriter and director?

Or did I suddenly remember the words of my old mentor in London? “You’re a pompous ass. You need to be dropped into a major city. You need to learn how to survive on your own, not depend on your …

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