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When I grew up, all I knew about my birth family came to me in the form of a small box.

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If you hear of the Schlessinger Farm, don’t try to find it.

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Frank Lamb was an intellectually disabled man from New Concord, Kentucky. At 52 years old, he’d never seen the inside of classroom. He couldn’t read or write, but had above-average communication skills. He had been placed in the care of the state when a welfare check at his parent’s farm revealed that the elder Lambs had been dead for some time. Frank’s parents had seemingly been mauled by an animal and left on the front porch.

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The headline read, “The River Wolf Strikes Again.” As with the other victims, a body was found in the Ohio River. The throat had been torn out and the arms and hands showed lacerations consistent with defensive wounds.

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I won’t blame you if you think this is fiction.

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“Those are some nasty bite marks,” said the E.R. Nurse. She swabbed a cotton ball soaked in alcohol up and down my neck, cleaning off the bloodstains. It seared with pain, but I barely cringed.

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I was a young man, in my mid 20s. I frequently chose to work graveyard shift wherever I was. During a widely transitional period of my life I was working at a service station.

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Logan wasn’t a great student, but that fact never really seemed to bother him.

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It was almost a perfect circle and bigger than I’d first thought — just a bit bigger than a softball.

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Life is not a game.