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A memoir of one tumultuous season of boyhood in Fort Value, Texas, beginning with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the weeks that followed. After John F. Kennedy's speech in front of the Hotel Tx in Fort Value on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand. Just a few hours later, Taylor's tutor called the category in from recess and, through tears, told them of the president's assassination. After that Taylor traces a path through another 12 months, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered secure begin to increase more technical. Looking back on the love and tension within his family, the child years friendships that lasted and the ones that didn't, his memories of summertime camp and family travels, he reflects after the outsized impact our larger American story got by himself. Benjamin Taylor is one of the very most talented freelance writers working today. In lyrical, translucent prose, he thoughtfully expands the storyplot of 12 months into the years before and after, painting a family portrait of the designer not only as a young man, but across his whole life. As he creates, "[A]ny 12 months could are a symbol of the whole. Our years are so implicated in one another that the least important is important enough...Any season I decided to go with would show the same mettle, the same frailties stamping me at 11 and 12."
