, I ioined the Army.\" stl~esiologist said. away as Prince went ~amed of the nurse s eyes, understanding e dreamed. I wonder :e that? I bet she did. CHAPTER ONE THE ROCK The Kansas~Oklahoma Border The woman died from her first labor of love without ever seeing her son, James Edward Prince. When World War Two broke out, the father left the sobbing little boy on the steps of an orphanage, with a cardboard suitcase holding all the child s possessions. The father told the boy he d be back--someday. The elder Prince took a bullet in the chest while ferrying troops from ship to shore on Nor- mandy Beach and James Prince was truly alone. He had no other kin. Families took him in, for he was a nice-looking child, and seem- ingly very intelligent. Those families attemp- ted to show him love, trying to make a home for him. But Jim would have none of it. He remained alone, in his heart, at least, if not in his actual surroundings. As a child, Jim did not care to participate in 13
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