Precerpt from Nothing So Broken (Richards)

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When we first moved into our house, there were four maple trees in the front yard, two bigger and two smaller, and I thought, how nice, just like us.

Then, there’s my mother turning off the television and sitting down on the couch to my left. I don’t recall the day of the week, or the weather, or what show I was watching. But I remember she was to my left.

My parents had begun their journey in 1962, 16-year-olds slow dancing at a house party. My mother said my father was funny and outspoken although he could be embarrassing at times. They graduated from Sutton High School among a class of 50 students in 1964, a few months before North Vietnam attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Three years later they were married.

They presented few symptoms of discord outside of sleeping in separate rooms. Dad was a restless sleeper and didn’t want to disturb Mom, we were told.

“We had 11 good years,” my mother would say later. “And five tough ones.”

Two weeks after the talk with my mother, we were standing on the porch, watching my father drive away in a dark brown passenger van. I remember the how-the-hell-did-we-get-here? look on his face as he waved goodbye. My mother stood between Bry and me, her arms around us as we waved back. We kept waving long after the van disappeared.

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New England memoir, Vietnam War legacy, trauma and healing memoir, coming-of-age true story, memoir about father and son, real-life story of resilience, personal story of grief and growth, emotional healing journey, memoir of small-town life, family trauma memoir, impact of war on families, veterans and PTSD family stories, intergenerational trauma, inspirational memoir about loss, adult child of a veteran, memoir set in a mill town, friendship and tragedy true story, memoir about overcoming fear and grief, how to heal from family trauma, memoir about growing up with a veteran parent, finding hope through personal crisis, true story of surviving emotional loss, lessons from a father's wartime wounds, memoir about friendship, trauma, and redemption

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