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riend along probably didn’t help much either).RelatedJohn Jantunen: My first night in ReginaJohn Jantunen: On reading to my sonThere is an ancient tug boat moored in the harbour behind us.It is black and white and has a red door and looks just like the one in that old children’s book.There is a small tree in front of it.Its trunk is thin and its branches empty so that http://www.newgenealogydresses.com/sheath-wedding-dresses-17-1.html , at first glance, it is hard to tell it apart from the dozen or so masts projected against a forest of glass and steel.Condos on the northern shore.Drake’s face bears such a look of gleeful determination that, all these years later, it’s hard not to recall another important step.One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.And for me his step would be just as momentous.The picture would mark the last time I saw him for almost 10 years.We have two other pictures of Drake placed at carefully considered intervals in our house.On an adjacent shelf in the den: a studio portrait to commemorate his high school graduation.So prim and proper in his gown and tie.Tacked to the corkboard in our kitchen: Drake sitting in an office chair in my sister’s apartment and trying not to smile.I think he was twelve.And a bunch more scattered through various scrap books.There’s one of me sitting beside him at my sister’s wedding.I’m in a tux and he’s in a white dress shirt that his aunt had picked out.It was the first time we’d seen each other since he was three.The caption Tanja wrote below it reads: Drake Meets John, hmmm.Both of us look a little uncomfortable.Between that photo and the one at the park we have no pictures of Drake.I’m not even exactly sure where he was during those years.All I know is that he’d left Vancouver with his mother and his older sister, Danara.I heard a rumour from a mutual friend that they were in Salmon Arm.Then Parksville or Nanaimo.When he was 11 he was remanded into foster care.We had just returned from a four-year stint spread between Cape Breton and Guysborough, Nova Scotia, and were back in Bracebridge.Anyk was two and Kai was but a notion.After speaking with Drake’s intake worker a few times, he agreed to send me the police report.On the night in question, it read, Drake was playing with a bottle of hairspray and a lighter in his bathroom.He set the drapes on fire.His mother was out drinking.A few minutes after she returned home one of her neighbours called 911.It sounded like she was killing someone over there, she’d told the operator.These were the last words his mother said to him: I never want to f king see you again.The police dragged her away in handcuffs.And so I got to know Drake.First at my sister’s wedding and then for five weeks the following summer and two weeks at Christmas, a pattern that would persist until he was 19.He once told me that he didn’t hold a grudge about the way things had turned out.I don’t remember what I said to him in response, but I’m certain it wasn’t the truth: that I know that sometimes he did.He’s 21 now and when we speak he calls me Pa-pah.He works as a bartender at a pub in Gastown.My younger sister runs into him every once in a while.She lives in Coquitlam but works, and plays, in Vancouver.He’s a funny guy http://www.newgenealogydresses.com/princess-wedding-dresses-16-1.html , she told me.And he looks just like you.He doesn’t answer his phone, I said.Remember what you were like when you were 21?He’ll answer when he wants to talk.Damned call display.Located just south of Bracebridge, it’s where the southern branch of the Muskoka River funnels through a thin gorge on its way to joining the main.The walls are some twenty feet high and below it, they say, the water is almost as deep.There’s a spot to jump off from a pine tree than leans over the cliff face.Someone had nailed a few boards on the trunk to serve as a ladder to the lowest branch.From there, you can climb all the way to the top if you wanted to, though neither of us did.We’d made two jumps apiece and then Drake sliced open his foot on a broken beer bottle.I bandaged the wound with my favourite shirt.It took us twenty minutes to get back to the car then ten more before we were in triage.We waited seven hours to see a doctor.You took him to the potholes, he said to me after I told him I had.He’s 14, the doctor said glaring at me and shaking his head, And you took him to the potholes?In the car ride home Drake said, That doctor was a f king asshole, and I agreed.Next time I’ll get Tanja to stitch you up at home, I told him.This was a horrible setback, particularly for the family of the dead pilot, but the risk is worth it, he told British television.before he would take any customers into space.He harshly criticized news media for reporting that the rocket had exploded.Investigators now believe that a device that rotates the tail to create drag during descent deployed too soon.before taking up any paying passengers.million, taxpayer-funded hangar in 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