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    Kasey's Song
    Kasey's Song
    Kasey's Song
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    Kasey's Song

    By Alexander S. Bauer

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    The story of a young girl's attempts to navigate both a difficult home life and a spot in a softball league above her age level.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexander S. Bauer
    Release dateJan 12, 2014
    ISBN9781311256348
    Kasey's Song
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    Alexander S. Bauer

    I was abysmal at the kind of writing that gets you good grades in English classes, so I never wrote much until tenth grade, after my ninth grade teacher embraced my creativity. Since then I haven't been able to stop.The best way to describe myself would be complex. I lettered in two sports (Bowling and Baseball) in high school and captained two academic clubs (Science Olympiad and Math League. I'm a jock who likes to write, who watches Star Trek, who cares about LGBT issues and human sexuality. I'm a nerd that plays with legos and builds model railroads, but can also play sports. One day I'll read about psychology, then movies, then hockey, then history.I've written four full novels, a couple dozen short stories and somewhere around five hundred poems. As a writer I derive inspiration from Rowling, Orwell, Crichton, and a number of Star Trek novelists as well as every movie I've ever seen. I like fantasy, things that can't happen in real life, the creation of entire worlds in which both author and reader can immerse themselves. I like ambiguous characters, neither good nor bad. I like insidious heroes, bastards with hearts of gold, people that make you laugh and think at the same time.And I love to converse, so if you're like me, track me down somewhere and say hi.

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      Kasey's Song - Alexander S. Bauer

      Kasey's Song

      Smashwords Edition

      by Alexander S. Bauer

      Copyright 2014 Alexander S. Bauer

      License Notes

      This Smashwords ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. Thank you for your support.

      Foreword: Based on a true story, which inevitably means lots of truth, but also lots of fiction.

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      Somewhere along the way somebody decided that I was a leader, a person to turn to when the ship needed steering, or when it had capsized entirely. Perhaps it was birthright, my name, after all, does mean 'leader of men' and I grew up as, not only the oldest child in my immediate family, but the second oldest among my many cousins as well. Perhaps it was the fortune of going through high school as 'the smart kid' and being the quintessential partner choice when it came to group projects.

      Most likely it was all of these things. We are inevitably a product of our two intertwined halves, genetics and environment, and where one's influence ends and the other's begins is never, ever clear. Nevertheless, by the time I reached my early twenties, the shy, quiet, introverted kid that mostly just wanted to be left alone had turned into a confident, though still quiet, and introverted man that people so often turned to.

      As it happened, my younger sisters provided me an opportunity to coach youth sports beginning as an unofficial helper when I was around eleven and progressing to a league-sanctioned softball coach as soon I was old enough at sixteen. It started off out of sheer boredom figuring that if my father was going to be their head coach, and both parents were going to force me to attend all their games and practices, then I could at least be doing something while I was

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