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A work in progress, "HOME TO THE ORPHANAGE" title has tremendous upside potential. The story line opens by tracing the French origins of Catholic nuns and the Irish-German roots of the author. Both were destined to find themselves joined at the hip at St. John’s Orphanage in Philadelphia. When the author is inexplicably taken out of the orphanage by his mother, what follows is two and a half years of hell and torment, an experience alien to the author raised by Catholic nuns since he was of nine-month old infant.
The story gains full traction by a detailed account of suffering and deprivation and abusive family conditions. Each torment only heightens a boy’s constant longing to return to the orphanage. Ultimately the true story provides clues of forgiveness and redemption, that life in an orphanage is not quite the bleak landscape that it is often cracked up to be. Imagine four hundred plus boys ensconced in one place! Imagine four hundred plus boys always up to something! But there are only so many stories that be wrapped in a memoir, and for a remarkable lot of women known as the Sisters of St. Joseph, the author spares no emotion as he fondly pays homage to them as saviors of his youth, as God’s gifts on earth, in an unique and riveting story .