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The Green Man of Destiny/ Part 3 — After The Fall
Green Man 82/The Promise
Celebrations and An Alternative Reality
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Green could not remember when he was this happy. I know my final challenge is ahead, and this — the life I left to find the Green Man. He laughed aloud as his thought finished itself beyond his reach.
The aromas of bread baking, pie tending, and pasta strands being cut summoned past memories as if they were yesterday. It was sixty or seventy years since he had been in the parlor of the family home — the clan.
I was a boy, thinking I was a man; how strange -
He was offered wine by some wishing to trick him into drinking it. He declined with grace. A few others made offerings of wine from a place of innocence and pride in their offering. Green took small sips, remarked on the…
