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Falvius Flatulation

I can't remember exactly when Flavius moved to town, but I do remember that it was an awful shock at the time. Like so many immigrants to Polecat Hollow, he had lost his sense of smell through a series of misfortunes and had migrated to the hills to be among his "own kind."

By, "his own kind," he would have described those with a high tolerance for odoriferous anomalies such as are frequent in our skunk affluent environment.

But, he didn't really get it. He was as pretentious as his name with all the ironies that are normally associated with conceit.

Flavius simply had the most uncanny ability to offend, belittle, and alienate with a tip of his nose skyward that the town had ever seen. He seemed to believe that he was better than everyone else and was intent upon presenting that image in every possible circumstance.

What the townsfolk did not know from the beginning and what would bring out their eventual characteristic compassion was something about his past and his own insecurities that I shall bring to your attention as the book unfolds.

For now, it will suffice to say that things are not always as they seem and people are not always what we see on the surface. Sometimes the reality is both more painful anmd wonderful than we expect. It takes sensitive souls with deep persistence and patient love to find out.
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