Family
He has adopted four boys and later had his own son. As he raised his own children they seemed to be bored with their own lives, he took moments of their lives and successfully put them into action adventure books to show them how exciting their own lives actually were. The original Life and Times of Jeremy Ruhl was written in 1979-1980 and consisted of over 1200 pages. Publishers broke down the book into three original sections.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“The family: I believe more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other—I mean the attempt to prolong family connection unduly, and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.”
—Valerie Solanas (b. 1940)
“If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all—both old and young.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)