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This is a book about life and the overall reality that we are just along for the ride. Through incredible lows and incredible highs, the reader will follow police officer and tragically single father, David Rhodes, while he raises his three young girls in an inner city jungle waiting to eat them. In the end, hindsight being what it is, the reader will find that everything will be OK in their own life's tragedies.

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Coming home after his night shift before a holiday weekend, police officer Rhodes discovers that his three young daughters were left unattended for the entire night when their mother failed to return after going out. The episode is the latest in a series of odd, neglectful, and infuriating incidents exhibited by his wife after the family moves from Arizona back to their home state of Michigan following Rhodes's service in the air force. Rhodes clearly has a story to tell--a couple, in fact. He recognizes that something is wrong in his marriage, but this knowledge is coupled with disbelief, denial, and uncertainty about what he can or should do. The ensuing custody battle prepares him for the next storm he must face: getting caught up in departmental politics and becoming a fall guy. Narrated in stream-of-consciousness style, with loose adherence to punctuation and grammar, Rhodes's words are nonetheless very powerful and engaging. Readers will shake their heads in disbelief as Rhodes writes of his encounters with various court personnel and the prejudices he faces on his journey as a single father trying to raise his daughters on his own. Interspersed between Rhodes's personal conflicts are the police calls. Each of these is a story in itself, covering all range of human emotions. Rhodes shows his sense of humor is still intact despite the tussles he has been through. For example, he admits that stressful situations often times bring up weird coping mechanisms, such as when he deals with a shooting victim: Carefully, I opened his shirt, just tearing the buttons off and un-tucking it from his pants. Being that it was the new millennium, I knew that if the phone on the counter rang, it would be the nineteen seventies calling, asking this guy to please return these polyester clothes, his butterfly collared shirt and high waist disco pants. It turns out the victim was shot, but not wounded in any way. Rhodes chalks the incident up to being a miracle, on

<p>Coming home after his night shift before a holiday weekend, police officer Rhodes discovers that his three young daughters were left unattended for the entire night when their mother failed to return after going out. The episode is the latest in a series of odd, neglectful, and infuriating incidents exhibited by his wife after the family moves from Arizona back to their home state of Michigan following Rhodes's service in the air force.<br> Rhodes clearly has a story to tell--a couple, in fact. He recognizes that something is wrong in his marriage, but this knowledge is coupled with disbelief, denial, and uncertainty about what he can or should do. The ensuing custody battle prepares him for the next storm he must face: getting caught up in departmental politics and becoming a fall guy.<br> Narrated in stream-of-consciousness style, with loose adherence to punctuation and grammar, Rhodes's words are nonetheless very powerful and engaging. Readers will shake their heads in disbelief as Rhodes writes of his encounters with various court personnel and the prejudices he faces on his journey as a single father trying to raise his daughters on his own.<br> Interspersed between Rhodes's personal conflicts are the police calls. Each of these is a story in itself, covering all range of human emotions. Rhodes shows his sense of humor is still intact despite the tussles he has been through. For example, he admits that stressful situations often times bring up weird coping mechanisms, such as when he deals with a shooting victim: Carefully, I opened his shirt, just tearing the buttons off and un-tucking it from his pants. Being that it was the new millennium, I knew that if the phone on the counter rang, it would be the nineteen seventies calling, asking this guy to please return these polyester clothes, his butterfly collared shirt and high waist disco pants. It turns out the victim was shot, but not wounded in any way. Rhodes chalks the incident up to being a miracle, on

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David Rhodes grew up as one of twenty-one children in a small town in Michigan. Having attended a very small Catholic grade school and then an only slightly larger high school, he admits knew nothing of what life held, would never had imagined the cruelty of mankind, is still amazed at life itself and never would have imagined writing about It. Having learned that life is a path and that each day is a new episode that prepares us for and leads us into the next, he does what he wants, when he wants, thanks to all the blessings received in all his yesterdays, which he knows prepared him for today and all his tomorrows.

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