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This is a story of an ordinary family who lead a fun-filled life with six kids, most a year apart. It begins with teenagers, Micki and Butch, who elope to Elkton, Maryland in a bizarre double wedding ceremony with Micki's mother. Their lives are filled with exciting cross-country trips with a father, much like the father in "Sound of Music" who thinks things should always run smoothly. Micki just grins, knowing that chaos will always reign supreme. They buy a haunted house in the mountains of Pennsylvania, hoping to take the children, mostly teenagers now, to a safer place than the drug infested schools of New York City. A sunny day in August brings a halt to their laughter and their dreams as one of the kids is struck down by a drunk driver a block from their home. Micki tells their story from the ICU of the hospital as the one struck down lies in a coma with a severed spinal cord. She flashes back to the past in order to better cope with an uncertain future as they learn again to laugh, to weep, to dance , to grieve, . . .AND THE WHIPPOORWIL SANG
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