I enjoyed this very much, Vic. What a great story. I think the up-tempo treatment is just right for a tragic story when the emphasis is on his endurance and the forward trajectory of his life.

I love this line: "Nothing, and I've still got most of it"

I think you might want to change New Caledonia to Nova Scotia. Same meaning, but very different places on opposite sides of the globe. Also, if authenticity is important, I don't think Pennsylvania was ever a dust bowl. That's something associated with the prairie states like Kansas, Oklahoma and parts of Texas and Nebraska. Pennsylvania might have periodically been affected by dust storms blowing eastwards from those states, but I don't think it was ever a "dust bowl" itself.

Both these things are easily changed if you want to.

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