Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
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Joy.
Stress.
Resilience, self doubt Joe Blair has experienced an extreme range of parental emotion with Michael, his autistic son.
Actor Michael T.
Williamson, who played Bubba in Forrest Gump and most recently, Gabriel in the Oscar nominated film Fences, reads Joe Blair's essay for the boy who makes waves.
Prospective buyers must wonder about the hard packed Runway of dirt in our backyard, where grass won't grow and the hasp and the padlock on the refrigerator.
And, well, they must wonder why the gate on our six foot high picket fence is permanently bolted shut.
Deb and I hardly think about these things.
We've been with Michael for eleven years.
There are two runways inside the fence.
One traces the edge of the house.
The dog made this one.
He sprints from window to window, tracking my location.
Am I in the kitchen?
Leaving the kitchen, walking to the living room, walking back to the kitchen.
It might be cute if it weren't for the destroyed windowsills and muddy paw prints on the siding.