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    The Orphan's Dilemma: After Dinner Conversation, #28
    The Orphan's Dilemma: After Dinner Conversation, #28
    The Orphan's Dilemma: After Dinner Conversation, #28
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    The Orphan's Dilemma: After Dinner Conversation, #28

    By Chris Burrow

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    Synopsis - A teenager must decide if he wants to start his new life without the memories of his difficult life waiting for adoption.

    After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.

    Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAfter Dinner Conversation
    Release dateFeb 3, 2020
    ISBN9781393014331
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      The Orphan's Dilemma - Chris Burrow

      The Orphan’s Dilemma

      After Dinner Conversation Series

      IN A FEW MINUTES THEY’RE going to say, It’s your turn, Harold. He will face Ms. Wickham with her thick black frames and smiling, slightly bug-eyed look, the question more in her eyes than on her lips because he already knows what that question is.

      He and the other orphans at Armstrong have thought, debated, searched and fought about this question for the last two years. It has come to be as much a part of his life as the rules that govern the orphanage itself. It has dogged him through fantasy and chore, sought him in the marvelous and the mundane.

      And wasn’t it what every orphan wanted? To wake up one day and have parents.

      Not only that, but to have always had them.

      Even now, he could scarcely believe it. There was an actual medical procedure in which all the particulars of an unwanted life were whisked out of a person’s very brain, and in their place was inscribed a poem, a life, written from remembered stanzas of song and semblance. It carried a cadence unknown before sleep, but whose new rhythm was as familiar as breathing upon waking.

      Memory surgery. The miracle whereby Harold’s lifelong fantasies of sitting at a table with a group of people who had spent their

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