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

“Would you relax?” Jackson whispered.


“Do I have a booger hanging from my nose?”


“Well, I don’t want rescue workers to be looking at my dead body if I’ve got a booger hanging from my nose or something.”


“If I’m going to die, then I want to look nice. If Ann Coulter can pull it off every single day, so can I.”


“What is it with Ann Coulter?” Jackson asked. “She’s not dead.”


“The last time that woman had a pulse, Jimmy Carter was the president and Jerry Falwell was launching the moral majority. Jimmy Swaggert, of course, was having sex with a prostitute at a motel in Louisiana.”


“If you believe my granddaddy, I was sitting on a fence post and masturbating. But he tends to exaggerate.”42: Hello, T-O-N-Y


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