by: Robert Nalley | Complete Story | Last updated Jun 15, 2024
Chapter Description: When Charlie took Sam in, after years of him feeling like a tennis ball, it started a new thing that helped both of them...and a lot of others, as well.
I spent the first fifteen years after the virus being a
tennis ball…batted back and forth between whoever would take me. Some of my family simply saw me as a mouth to
feed and kept out of sight. Some saw a
target for their own frustrations.
Admittedly, I was definitely a slacker, used to couch
surfing my way through life while working at minimum wage or casual jobs, but
being treated like I was really eleven years old was too much. I just retreated into a shell and tried to be
invisible. At thirty-three, when the
virus hit, I still had no idea what to do or where to go. With the treatment I received after that, I
couldn’t respond in any good way.
It wasn’t until my much younger cousin took me in, in his college apartment, and treated me like a human being with wants and abilities of his own, that I began to feel my worth. It took me over a year to realize I could still accomplish something. Charlie was a sophomore when I moved in and I finished my own business degree two years after he finished his bachelors’. We’re now partners in the business he started, AR-Trek, helping other AR-Adults find their roles in life through therapeutic camping and outdoor experiences.
Read the remainder here: Tales from the ARVInn--Charlie and Sam, Partners (mediafire.com)
Tales from the ARVInn, 3
by: Robert Nalley | Complete Story | Last updated Jun 15, 2024
Stories of Age/Time Transformation