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Jack’s Walk

March 8, 2011 4 Comments

By Bob Hartnett

Jack walked down the sidewalk on his way to work like he had done every weekday for twenty years. From his plain white house to his plain brown office; nothing really changed, except him getting slower. About to walk through the office door, a thought hit Jack, and he smiled. Today he would change his routine. So he did not walk into the office; he boarded the bus at the corner. He went to the airport. He tossed his brief case in the trash. He looked at a map of the world, bought a ticket to Belize, and never looked back.

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  1. Lin Hartnett says

    March 9, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    Love your story.

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  2. raghav says

    July 8, 2011 at 6:04 am

    well its kinda giving a moral to give up?????

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  3. Jamie says

    September 11, 2011 at 9:53 am

    Ok and Good could need a bit more descriptive words

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  4. Bruno says

    July 21, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    I appreciated your story. It opens perspectives for the atypical.

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