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Meet Burt Hecker, aka Eckbert Attquiet, a 63-year-old medieval re-enactor with a momentous nose, who dresses in tunics and drinks too much home-made mead. If only he knew that his son doesn't want to be rescued, or found.

This is the story of Burt's painful, hilarious and doomed attempts to come to terms with his own past.

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The thing is, although theyve lived side by side in the only two houses on rural Route 29 in upstate New York since Emily was born, Howie and Emily have never so much as spoken.