tigers and  or nearby, ready to beg us to let  ed and ion t Edly eaten by tigers, but a quick glance at t t cats stretc asleep in tion, t tess and feared t I  to break .

    quot;; I told . quot;Ed;

    So t ;Eddie,quot; s;;

    e  doo ave ition, alarming ts. tess stopped an elderly couple e direction. quot;tle boy all alone? tton candy.quot;

    quot;t c; ting a to tance be t of tled along, attempting to  and clumsy jog, ced penguin t o ted past Eds bill  , t us as ;t of t and off ;

    taking Edo never let go.

    Ede on a string, alening to break free. Before arted sc ess took good care of o cernoons. urned four, Eddie  in o o ing imaginary games and companions to ernoon, but to come back. t rusted es. Any one of them could have been a changeling in disguise.

    Strangely, my music flourision ained oys and books, I composed. tess encouraged me to find my oy used record store. Sickets to  music and books on orcration and instrumentation, and insisted t I go into ty to  t friendly cing, in essence, toire in treasure c from Ce dozens of  success or attention resulted from my efforts—a coerced performance of a ne by a local c on electric organ ate. I tried everyto get my music  tapes and scores around try to publis usually received a form rejection, if anyt composer serves an apprenticess, even middle-sceac in my , I kneions  yet fulfilled my intentions.

    One p come in ter picking et in California, erest in actually recording one of my compositions