Greetings readers. This has taken a long time to accomplish. We lost a great Author in 2021 He was about to graduate school and move on to M.I.T. He wrote under the name Juju which was a childhood name for Julian.
I am very glad to have known him as a friend. Although we never met in person, we spoke and texted and enjoyed a few Zoom calls during the plague.
I'd like to make it clear that I am not actually a co-author. All I have done was to corral all the chapters available from various sources and try to make a coherent story available to be read. His original Editor was Darrel Hooker but Darrel passed and Darryl Radio Rancher helped him and he helped me as well, and still is helping me. A special thanks to The Story Lover and another to Zarek Dragon who suggested a co-author format.
I considered Julian to be my mentor as far as writing goes, even though I was older than him by a couple years. It was quite a surprise to discover he was younger than myself. He wrote and spoke like an adult. I was able to help him navigate school and program shopping and he had been accepted at M.I.T. . I want to thank Jules Porter for forwarding the drives that his original works were stored on. And for his introduction to Julian's grandfather.
Jules Porter sent me the files of the last chapters. A few of those chapters were corrupted and the last was unfinished. Julian's grandfather sent me the rest of Julian's flash drives, when they were discovered.
Those drives enabled me to repair a couple corrupted chapters and gave me a direction to go, in completing the final chapter. It was fortunate that he made copious notes as he wrote.
I am honored by the privilege to place the entire story before his readers and hopefully it will give me a little peace in knowing that you can all read the rest of the story.
From his notes, I was able to see where he was going with the last chapter. I just hope it was up to his standards. Frankly he could write circles around me and a lot of authors I know. But he inspired me to write more and continue to perfect my style.
Julian's death impacted a lot of people and I hope publishing his last work will give us all some comfort.