5/19/2023 0 Comments Gary paulsen booksWord of her newfound lifestyle found its way back to a small army of the boy’s relatives in northern Minnesota. Caught up in a life of heavy drinking and wild partying, she no longer had the time or attention to raise the boy right. She now had a seemingly endless supply of pocket money from her steady hourly wage but was not even remotely prepared to resist the temptations of the big city. She had grown up on a small northern Minnesota farm, wearing handsewn dresses made out of flour sacks and earning, if she was lucky, twenty-five cents a week. When he was four, his mother took him-dragged might be a better word-to Chicago, where she went to work in a munitions plant making twenty-millimeter cannon shells. Patton’s staff who was gone for the whole of the Second World War-and they would not meet each other until he was seven years old. He was born in 1939 and his father was in the army-a low-level officer on General George S. He was not literally an orphan, but he was a lost child.
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