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    Picky Walker

    By Richard Diedrichs

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    Alan volunteers to attend to a mute old man with tongue cancer. Inspired by the loss of his sister to leukemia, Alan vows to give Picky Walker comfort and consolation. Discouraged by the bleakness of Picky's life and alarmed by the news that Picky is an ex-con, Alan struggles to find compassion. His ambivalence leads to devastating feelings of not being there for Picky.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Diedrichs
    Release dateMay 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370657193
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    Richard Diedrichs

    Richard Diedrichs grew up in Los Angeles. He edited travel and health magazines in Seattle, worked as an editor at the schools of Engineering and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and then taught Fourth and Fifth grades and Kindergarten in public elementary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Richard has published novels, short stories, nonfiction and essays. He currently works as an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. Richard lives in a beach town on the south central California coast.

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