until she and her husband had moved to Ailey in 2009 that she began
to consider following her friend’s advice. “We were sitting on the porch
one day, and I was thinking about this story. It was going over and over
in my mind. Finally, I decided to just get a pad and paper and write it
down.” She smiled, and added, “Somehow that's a different commitment
when you put it on paper.”
The story was a creative blending of nonfiction and fiction, facts
spun in a barrel of imaginative play. With a mouse named Eugene, the
middle name of both her husband and son, Lynn crafted a tale based
on the memories of watching her son’s creative process as a child. “He
loved this go-cart he got for Christmas when he was about six,” said
Lynn. When he was fifteen, he decided he needed something bigger
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“We were sitting on the
porch one day, and I was
thinking about this story. It
was going over and over in
my mind. Finally, I decided
to just get a pad and
paper and write it down.”