Chapter One: More of the Same

I introduced you to John Heartbreak and his wife the Fabulous Mrs. Heartbreak in my book Coffee with John Heartbreak: A Mostly True Story of Berryville, Arkansas. This book is more of the same, but with a few differences. My preferance was to have no differences between that first book and this one. Obviously, it would be an easier book to write and it would be an easier book to read since you would have already read it and would have already gone to the dictionary to look up words that made no sense or were otherwise outside your experience. If it was the same book you would also know which spots to avoid due to the dullness of the spots, or because the points made on those pages were ones that you disagreed with. On the whole, and I'm sure you would agree, it would be far pleasanter experience for you--and an easier one for me--if we could just agree to writing and reading the same book over again.

But that is not to be.