Turkey Mountain Resurrection is a dromedy of errors showing the tragedy that families of veterans, returning crippled in mind and body, go through helping their loved one return to society, very emotional and comedic
care for Connor who is an invalid.
. Milo, with the help of Connor’s two year old son, retrain Connor’s brain to accomplish hygiene and begin elementary learning processes. After a couple of years nursing Connor back to health the judge suggests that Milo marry Connor’s wife to help raise her husband and son.
The Child Protective Agency weasel into the maze and try to take the child away from Connor.
Connor sees the world from the perspective of a child, causing slap-stick comedic scenes when Milo trains him in his personal activities, ABC’s and math. Connor’s son, Chuck, grows up with his dad.
Milo teaches the boys baseball together and they both excel. Connor a former athletic star uses his warped skills to perform outrageous bowling and baseball feats
“What’s wrong with me, Daddy?”
Milo’s heart crashed. He grabbed his giant friend around the shoulders, and they both wept into dirty shirts. They smelled each other’s hard-earned sweat, and their bond was bona fide in heaven, kin forever.
“Someday, Connor, we’ll sit down, and I will tell you your entire story. Some of your past might come back to you. Who knows? But for right now, it looks like God has given us the opportunity to rebuild an entirely new life. No matter who we are, Connor, none of us can ever go back and pick up where we left off. The world keeps spinning and life keeps moving on, changing. We can’t ever make up for lost time. We just have to try to keep up and do the best we can with what God has given us.
“To answer your question, nothing is wrong with you. You are your own man. You are still Connor the Great, just livin’ life and enjoying it the best you can. You have a heart as big as a pumpkin. Grandma gave you that. You are all right. You’re our Connor. And we love you just the way you are. We will all change some as we go along. But to be given a second life and start over again in a state of innocence… well, that is a gift from God Almighty Himself. Like Lazarus, it’s a Turkey Mountain Resurrection.”
“We are all proud of you. You are a unique, amazing person. There is not another person in the entire universe like Connor Flannigan, and we want you to be proud of that. As far as me being your daddy or your brother, that is up to you. Which do you prefer, daddy or brother? It won’t change a thing as far as I am concerned.”
Connor wiped his face on his filthy, open denim shirt and stared Milo in the eyes, right into his soul, and said, “Daddy.”
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