Alexander Taylor Cooper: From Barefoot Boy to Colonel

  Let’s cut the palaver and get right into this, because I’ve got a story to tell. It’s about my great-nephew Alexander Cooper, the brightest star among the three orphan children that I raised or helped raise. I never had no children of my own, so I was always hungry for kids. This story begins with my hunger and what happened as a result. But first I got to apologize to the reader for the style of this essay. I have an amanuensis who’s helping me get from the virtual reality of the afterlife to the printed page, and sometimes I can’t shut him up. Later on, talking about Alex, you’ll hear the difference as he takes over from me. I swear the boy knows more about nephew Alex than I do.

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