If you lived in the town of Clear Creek Valley, you'd know who I am, and you'd know who my family is. But in the slight chance that you don't, or have never even visited, I'm Oliver Harken Derry. I'm twenty now, but I was seventeen during the summer of 1993. That summer started out like normal: my parents went to visit the relatives, my older sister went on a secret road trip, I started a prank war with my eleven younger siblings... but then the crazy shit happened. Stuff, I'd never expected. I'd like to blame a lot of what happened on Penny Harris (one of my foster sisters), and her brothers, but it wasn't exactly ALL her fault. The circumstances just weren't on our side, apparently. We could've never expected any of it. As I'm finding out, my family is destined to be in the midst of trouble, at all times. Being a Harken... it doesn't mean anything to you. But it means a hell of a lot to me, and I'd do anything to protect that.
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