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    Tattle Tale Talk #1 Win My Family Home FREE
    Tattle Tale Talk #1 Win My Family Home FREE
    Tattle Tale Talk #1 Win My Family Home FREE
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    Tattle Tale Talk #1 Win My Family Home FREE

    By Francis Edwards

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    Francis Edwards and his extended family weave a story full of New England resentment. He never gets to the root of the matter, because his neighbors' shutters are shut. Gossip freely runs around the small New England town each day as the locals gather at the post office to get their mail. Too many hurts just crush their lives after a trying twenty-five years before making a u-turn.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrancis Edwards
    Release dateJan 31, 2011
    ISBN9781452428871
    Tattle Tale Talk #1 Win My Family Home FREE
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    Francis Edwards

    University of Pittsburgh B. A. Degree Scranton University Masters Degree

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      Tattle Tale Talk #1 Win My Family Home FREE - Francis Edwards

      TATTLE TALE TALK #1

      Author

      Francis Edwards

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      Tattle Tale Press at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2011 by Francis Edwards

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This 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 person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 False Impressions

      Chapter 2 Tragedy

      Chapter 3 Daily Bread

      Chapter 4 Anticipation

      Chapter 5 Overwhelmed

      Chapter 6 Calamity

      Chapter 7 Quandary

      Chapter 8 A Comfortless House

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      Questions

      Chapter 1 False Impressions

      Come on…find the clues and figure out the answers then save your industrious work. Submit all QUESTION SHEETS together from each of three books to find out if you are the one who correctly answered the questions and is picked to be the contest winner. Each of three books contains 10 questions. The PRIZE: MY FAMILY HOME. Please read all the details of this contest on the Details Page.

      This will be my legacy to give someone a beautiful home. The American Dream has been slipping away for too many people in our nation.

      What was one to think moving to a place proclaiming Entering Kennebunkport … and not Welcome To… as most towns do on their greeting signs? I should have known not to trust 25 years of my life to living in such a place, but everything that wasn’t sold in New Jersey and all the possessions my family could not part with sat in the first of 15 trucks of household goods outside the real estate office on a very cold January day.

      We did look at various possibilities on a few trips to Maine, but everything was sold or under contract by the time we could make our move. The only option left to us was a residential house called Heartbreak Hotel. A local restaurant owner had owned the house and had rented out the rooms to anyone who needed a place to sleep. When each summer came to an end, the boys and girls separated returning to college or to wherever, and thus the name stuck with the local townspeople.

      Sitting in New Jersey, Maine became an illusion gathered on one’s mind from looking at all the picture calendars, magazines, and books depicting an idealistic way of life. White clapboard houses with green shutters on peaceful elm treed lined streets near rocky beaches with picture perfect blue sky and ocean. An inert feeling of embracing Colonial America in Maine appealed to one’s sense of longing for a simple and uncomplicated life. After all, my uncle assessed the only choice we had by saying; One could not find a better situated house in America with a barn that overlooked the main business area of a town.

      We only had the information from the listing sheet that we took back to New Jersey, when we made the decision to purchase the house. I can only remember stopping in front of the house on one of our trips to view properties. I went up onto the front porch and lost interest at first sight, when I saw the peeling white paint on the clapboard siding and rotten floorboards on the porch. The house was situated only about five feet from the street, so I guessed that this was done so that one would not have much snow to shovel in order to get out into the street. This house just had no curb appeal even though; it had a four-story barn attached to the backside of the house. We learned at the closing that the furnace might not be working, since all the radiators froze up and burst when the water thawed. The real estate agent told us that the real former owner who was the last person in her family line was 100 years old and confined to a nursing home had heard that a family was purchasing the home, and that she was just delighted to hear the news. We were only the fourth owner of the home, since it was built in 1745!

      Our illusion was quickly shattered as the reality of our situation became more apparent upon our arrival at the house. The house was unlivable. We quickly rented a seaside cottage for 6 weeks, while we drew up a plan of attack. The real estate agent informed us that we had to hire the local boys to do any work if we wanted to fit into the fabric of the town. We had no objection to this scheme and made the necessary telephone calls to arrange help. The local telephone operator at the other end of the line overheard all those calls. We paid for a private telephone line, but all lines in the town somehow were third party! We didn’t mind this as this was a way of broadcasting that we were going to be good

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