title: An Improbable Life: Memoirs
author:  Robert Craft 
description: The great pleasure of reading Craft derives from two sources. First, there's his insatiable and promiscuous appetite for knowledge. . . . He possesses much the same flair for the encyclopedic disquisition as his old Hollywood friend Aldous Huxley. . . . If you like his meticulous and well-stocked mind as much as I do, you'll eventually want to read everything he's written. <br />--Michael Dirda, <i>Washington Post</i><br /><br />The great pleasure of reading Craft derives from two sources. First, there's his insatiable and promiscuous appetite for knowledge. . . . He possesses much the same flair for the encyclopedic disquisition as his old Hollywood friend Aldous Huxley. . . . If you like his meticulous and well-stocked mind as much as I do, you'll eventually want to read everything he's written. <br />Michael Dirda, Washington Post
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  Second  
  Chances  
  George Lee Miller  
  Frio Press LLC  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  © 2020 George Lee Miller. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
  reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the author.
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7341564-3-0
  
  
  Hardback ISBN: 978-1-7341564-5-4
  
  
  eBook ISBN: 978-1-7341564-4-7
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover design by Lance Buckley
  
  
  Interior design by Lisa Gilliam
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Frio Press LLC 2020
  
  
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  For Kyle and Ruby and all that is just and true and good.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the
  same.”
  
  
  —Job 4:8
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [Prologue](p