title: Escaping Innocence: A Story Of Awakening
author:  Joe Perrone Jr. 
description: "If you are a child of the sixties, you have to read this book! It's filled with universal characters and experiences guaranteed to touch every emotion possible. Don't miss this one." --Bob Walker, former CEO Promotion Mechanics, Inc., a Division of Ogilvy &amp; Mather Advertising<br /><br />KUDOS for "ESCAPING INNOCENCE" -- "Author Joe Perrone Jr. has written the definitive 'coming-of-age' novel, with hare-brained characters like those we all knew in our youth. Check your own 'innocence' at the door, and start reading ESCAPING INNOCENCE - you won't be able to put it down!" -- Rick Dawley, former Chief Operating Officer, Superstand Entertainment Co., Houston,TX
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  FLASH FORWARD
  s warm as May in March, Saturday had begun on a light note,
  with useful work and the promise of romance, and Joe could
  never have imagined that in mere hours he would arrive at this
  darkest moment of his life. There was an old song that had been
  a hit more than once over the years, twice before Joe had been
  born. He thought of it now: “You Always Hurt the One You
  Love.” His eyes flooded with tears as he shot her dead.
  
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  AN ORDINARY JOE
  othing remarkable happened to Joe Mandel until the winter
  that he was eighteen, when over the course of one day, more
  interesting, strange, and perilous events befell him than most
  people experience in a lifetime. Having floated through so many
  tranquil years free of adversity, he was ill prepared for his
  encounters with what his matern