Big Fish
By: Daniel Wallace

"I swung higher and higher…at the top of my highest arc, the set plunged forward, sending me out of the swing and on an unlikely trajectory toward a white picket fence, on which I would assuredly have been impaled. Suddenly I felt my father near me; it was as though he was flying, too, and that we were both falling together. His arms embraced me like a cloak, and I came to rest on the ground beside him. He had plucked me from Heaven and set me down safely on Earth." (pg. 126-127)

William Bloom recalls one of the times his father, Edward Bloom, saved his life when in just enough time, he caught William who had flown out of an old and unsecured swing in the direction of a picket fence on which William would have landed and in William's mind, would have been impaled.

Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkle

When you're weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all;
I'm on your side. When times get......

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