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THE LIFE AND DREAMS OF JOE BARDY

Have you known Joe Bardy--? Hope you have not. He was an insurance agent who was elevated to the level of land manager by his good work an communication skills and his trades acumen. This narrative is about all of these virtues and some further which elevated him to the level of a star in his lifetimes. At workplace. But not in the family. In the workplace only where he was model of hard work, much liked by his supervisors of various boards and his co-workers and all the aides-de-camp who pulled under him. But alas, here arises the big doom of his life. Once he grew an antagonist of his own marrow, who ought to honor him for his trustworthiness and love, but sure she was the last fan of this master of the workplace. What modifications he did in all the posts, he operated. In the country and abroad. Joe Bardy never dragged, another of his virtues, and did not play card games for money which every other guy in the hostel, he sojourned did. He was a grind of cantos, but of exploit kinds by theme, and though not of any grand merit, these treks in the land of books, made him a model among those who spent their leisure moments in theatres. At that time in our hometown, there were only three cinemas and they were all loaded for three shows. There, was tough competition among the customers for that. Because people wanted to spend more time in cinemas than in families, because in those times, in our tropical region, the cinema was the choicest locality to unwind and sleep, and good for a midday slumber because all the three cinemas were airconditioned.....[To be continued]





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Theme--

The story happens in a western Indian town that was once a colony of the Portuguese trading people. A story of misunderstanding and the prices that the characters involved had to pay for it... Joe bardy has an elder brother who was separated to him by a year. the elder brother died and following that his wide in an epidemic, the two children.children. were adopted, by bardy and were kept in the hostel and he did not want to spoil the family life, for he was afraid that if his wife knows about it she will leave him. he had great regard for the brother, and the brother took a promise from him to bring them up independently. The two children, out of curiosity came to his house. His wife saw the kids and thought that they were Bardy's and got separated. He told that it was his brother's children. And his wife and children went away from him. bardy was troubled. And it happened that Bardy's spouse got an old document from somebody, proving the incident of Bardy's elder brother's death and came to see bardy. bardy was in his deathbed. And he forgave his wife and told that if she had dispensed a tad more patience, their lives would have been salutary. Now he or she cannot help it and pray that they will meet in the next life together.

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