Years have gone by since the death of Noah his special needs son, and Wiley Cantrell realizes it’s time to move on. He and his husband Jackson try to adopt little Tony Gorzola, a deaf boy with HIV who is emotionally traumatized.<br><br>Difficulties quickly set in. Tony is a sweet boy but very damaged by abuse and neglect. And Tony’s mother, in prison, is unwilling to relinquish her parental rights. No sooner do they get the go ahead to foster Tony when another child they had considered becomes available -- the daughter Jackson always wanted.<br><br>With two children on their hands, life is complicated -- wonderfully so. But just as things begin to settle down, Tony, his immune system compromised, falls ill with pneumonia ... and Wiley and Jackson find their little family faced with crisis once again.

Go Tell It on the Mountains

“It’ll be nice, you bringing him around for Sunday dinner,” Bill added.


Would be, I thought, if I wasn’t moving to Boston.31: You Got Something to Say


It’s this way,I signed to Michael Daniels, a young deaf man I’d helped place at a furniture factory just outside the Tupelo city limits.


Today was his first day. Fitting that it was Monday, even though the shop would be closed on Thursday and Friday for New Year’s. Apparently they had a lot of orders and needed as much help as they could get, holidays be damned.


Thank you for your help, Mr. C. I want to work. I want to pay for my own things.


I know you do, M. I think you’ll like it here.


We walked through the parking lot in the cold as we made our way to the employee entrance.


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