Back in Crescent Valley a man named Chuck Lane moved into the house that the Barnes family used to inhabit. Chuck moved in with his dog Buck exactly six months after the Barnes family moved out. Chuck was a blind man. He was sixty seven years old and he was a retired Navy seal and carpenter. He had spent the last ten years farming on a farm in Iowa. He moved to Crescent Valley after he had been afflicted with arthritis.

  He sat on the back porch sipping on a cold, glass of lemonade two months after he had moved in. Chuck rocked gently back and forth in his rocking chair. His St. Bernard Buck lied down beside his owner’s feet. ‘’I’ll tell you what Bucky boy, country living is the best kind of living if you ask me,’’ Chuck stated firmly.

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