The Jonah Syndrome

The Jonah Syndrome Details The Unrequited Love Of Art Richards For His Beloved Darla Stone Over Two Decades And Two Wars. Art Survives Three Hellish Years As A Korean Prisoner Of War. Due Principally To His Vivid Memories And Profound Love And Of Darla. His Daily Dreams Of Darla Sustain Him Through Untended Wounds Starvation Torture And Frigid Climate. Prior To His Liberation However Darla Believing Him Dead Remarries. Mindful That He Is Plagued By A Family Jonah Curse A Heartbroken Art Reenlists. Art Is Seriously Wounded While A Combat Officer In Vietnam. Beautiful Nurse Lt. June Russ Tends His Wounds In A Station Hospital. Art Is Astonished By June'S Startling Similarity To Darla Who Endlessly Permeates His Thoughts. The Two Become Lovers Then They Are Un-Expectantly Separated. A Pregnant June Later Is To Play A Vital Role In Art'S Life. Art Summoned To Darla'S Deathbed In 1970 Arrives Too Late. Once Again He Is To Surmise That Nothing In His Life Ever Goes Right. In A Heartwarming Surprise To Art Darla Leaves A Letter Informing Him That He Is The Father Of Her 19-Year-Old Son Zane. Art Also Is Amazed At The Startling Resemblance Of Nancy Darla'S 17-Year-Old Daughter To Her Late Mother. Nancy Has A Lingering Crush On Art. Well Aware Of The 20-Year Difference In Their Ages Art Is Drawn To Her Nevertheless. Art Later By Chance Encounters Old Flame June Russ. While Trying To Decide Between Nancy And June He Is Confronted With A Critical Life Threatening Illness. Through Hypnotism It Is Revealed That Art Is The Reincarnation Of Famous Major League Baseball Player Toby Mcguire. Toby Was Killed In A Baseball Game By A Pitched Bean-Ball. Art Attempts To Be Retrogressed Back In Time To The Year 1930 To Re-Assume The Dying Entity Of Toby Mcguire. Then Possibly To Reunite With His Beloved Darla.