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    All that I Am
    All that I Am
    All that I Am
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    All that I Am

    By Paul Ceretto

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    In this romantic comedy, a religious chord echoes throughout this short story. Dealing with modern themes and revolving around an immature widower and his son. Nathan, the father, searches for peace after the premature death of his wife.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Ceretto
    Release dateJun 3, 2014
    ISBN9781310969737
    All that I Am
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    Paul Ceretto

    On September 8th of 2008, after a lifetime of drug and alcohol abuse, Paul fell from a building to the concrete below. He laid dying for over eight hours. After he was resuscitated, he spent over a week in a coma. He resurfaced from unconsciousness with a traumatic brain injury. “I have had two lifetimes in one over all existence,” Paul says. For the next six months, Paul would spend time in 3 different hospitals gaining back the basic functions of life. It was at this time Paul made a conscious decision to change his life. “When this kind of tragedy happens to most people, they fight to get back the life they had. I had no life to get back too. So I created one,” Paul says. Paul found that writing was his way of coping with what happened to him. He took a year after he left the hospital to write his story. It was at this time he discovered his destiny. “My goal is to sculpt well written entertaining stories. I strive to build bridges of emotion from writer to reader. I work for the reader so they can gain as much happiness reading them as I have writing them.”

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      All that I Am - Paul Ceretto

      All that I Am

      Paul Robert Ceretto

      Copyright 2014 by Paul Robert Ceretto

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      I would like to dedicate this story to my friend Mike Garrigan. We have had similar paths you and I. Similar in the sense that we have came to the same conclusions about our former faith and beliefs. Class was never the same without your honesty.

      I would like to thank all those who have read this story and gave me feedback and Erin Koch for the original cover photo.

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      Zack and I are in the hammock. He fastens himself to me as usual, clings to my chest. The summer wind rocks us back and forth. I smile and kiss the top of his head, his blonde hair. I never knew how deep a love could root itself until I met her and had him.

      Zack is everything to me now. He’s smart and inquisitive. I’m proud of him, and I make sure I tell him, that he hears it every day.

      Noel and I met in the fall of 1996. Noel is Zack’s mother, my wife. She has been dead five years now. I bought this house for Zack and me after we received the settlement. Noel has a closet full of clothes in a house she never lived in.

      Noel was twenty years my junior. That didn’t sit well with a lot of people. People always said Noel was too young for me. I never really gave a shit; I had a real connection to Noel. Our love was solid. I had waited for someone special for a long time, when I found Noel, I wasn’t letting go.

      Noel’s mother, Sarah, particularly didn’t agree with the marriage. I have a strange relationship with Sarah. We’re both widowers, so with that, we are similar. However, we differ greatly in our spiritual beliefs. Sarah’s a Christian, my Goddess died in childbirth. Noel could move things in me, cause a shine to burst in my bones, from my core.

      I hug Zack and kiss him again.

      I’m proud of you, Zack, I say.

      Dad, are you going to say that all the time?

      Maybe. I hug him tight.

      God he reminds me of her! I hate when he is sad. When Noel was sad, I would just hold and kiss her as we remained silent in the hammock, same hammock, new trees.

      What do you want to eat tonight, Zack?

      I don’t know. Zack’s head comes up off my chest. Dad, how come you don’t have any friends?

      I stare at him deadpan. My chin tucks to my chest.

      What are you talking about? I move around a little. Put my head back on my hand. Close my eyes. I have lots of friends.

      No, Dad, you don’t have any friends.

      I get a kick out of the way he enlightens me of this obvious truth.

      Your mom was my best friend, I say, and open my eyes.

      You need a girlfriend. Zack looks at me as if I stink.

      I position myself in the hammock so that I am upright. I forget sometimes that

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