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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled The Tin Box about Kenly, Tommy, Kenly's with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction?
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conversations.value: the author's heartfelt first novel hinges on a long-kept secret of Kenly Lowen, a woman whose loving marriage was forged on a desperate lie. After an ominous prologue, the story begins with 15-year-old Kenly's difficult adolescence: her mother died when she was seven, and she leads a rootless, itinerant life with her heartbroken alcoholic father. They finally settle in Athabasca, a small town in northern Alberta, Canada, where Kenly forms intense friendships with an odd lot&mdash;her next-door neighbor Tommy, whose Proteus syndrome symptoms include a disfigured face, and Lexie, a feisty redhead. When Kenly's father commits suicide, Tommy and his mother, Jean, take Kenly in. Her friendship with Tommy deepens to romance, and before Kenly leaves for college, she and Tommy lose their virginity in his tree house. Connor, the son she bears, is Tommy's biological child, and Kenly must face up to the deception that may unravel her marriage. The novel's moving conclusion is a testament to love and forgiveness. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Soon, Northwestern, University, arriving.
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conversations.value: the author's heartfelt first novel hinges on a long-kept secret of Kenly Lowen, a woman whose loving marriage was forged on a desperate lie. After an ominous prologue, the story begins with 15-year-old Kenly's difficult adolescence: her mother died when she was seven, and she leads a rootless, itinerant life with her heartbroken alcoholic father. They finally settle in Athabasca, a small town in northern Alberta, Canada, where Kenly forms intense friendships with an odd lot&mdash;her next-door neighbor Tommy, whose Proteus syndrome symptoms include a disfigured face, and Lexie, a feisty redhead. When Kenly's father commits suicide, Tommy and his mother, Jean, take Kenly in. Her friendship with Tommy deepens to romance, and before Kenly leaves for college, she and Tommy lose their virginity in his tree house. Soon after arriving at Northwestern University, Kenly meets and sleeps with handsome Ross, and they marry when she discovers she is pregnant. Connor, the son she bears, is Tommy's biological child, and Kenly must face up to the deception that may unravel her marriage. The novel's moving conclusion is a testament to love and forgiveness. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first two paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: The Tin Box
  They shook hands before Chet rolled away. William locked the gate and hurried back to the main building.
  Of course, there was nobody to talk to. He'd felt Colby's absence acutely every single day since May. He'd now been missing him for a much longer time than they'd been friendly. Tonight, though, it seemed worse than ever.
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conversations.value: Do you know another paragraph?
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conversations.value: Colby was silent as William used a cotton swab to dot antiseptic cream onto the scrapes. The injuries weren't deep or serious, but they'd be uncomfortable for a couple of days. He reached for large adhesive bandages.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last five paragraphs? End with the sentence ' Believe in love.'.
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conversations.value: But you've caused other changes too. Instead of a life spent doing dry academic research nobody will ever care about, I'm studying you and people like you, and with help from my friends I'm sharing your stories.
  I also want you to know that things are better now. I don't know if that gives you any solace, but it's something I'd want to know if I were in your position. Life still isn't perfect for gay people. My own parents won't speak to me. But the atrocities that were done to you are not being repeated. My Colby and I are accepted and loved by his entire family. His aunt knits me scarves and his cousin bakes me pies. His mom has actually smiled a few times. (That's a bigger deal than it sounds.)
  I had to move out of the hospital now that they're doing renovation there. Colby and I bought a little house in central Jelley's Valley, right across the street from his grandfather's house. We hired his cousin (not the one with the pies) to do some improvements on the place. We're turning one of the bedrooms into a nursery with a jungle theme. I'm looking forward to raising our daughter there and helping Colby run the general store. Maybe I'll teach some classes at the community college when it opens.
  It's funny. I've been thinking of myself as an atheist for a while now, and I assumed that meant when we die we're just dead. Gone. But look at all you've done, nearly 40 years after you died. And here I am, writing you a letter. Lately, I've come to believe that after we die some part of our spirit does remain. I'm hoping my letter helps you find peace. We never met, you and I, but I love you. You're loved, Bill. And I believe that just maybe, in some way, you know that.
  And this is the most amazing thing of all: I believe. I believed when I was younger, but it was a terrified, cowering kind of belief. The kind of belief that makes you hide. Then I believed I could pretend to be someone else. I lost that belief too. But over the past months—due in part to you, Bill—I've come to believe in myself, believe in the future, believe in ghosts, believe in hope. Believe in love.