Will That Be Regular or Ethyl?

<p>This is the story of the author's life growing up in a large family in a small Missouri town near Route 66 during the 1950s. </p><p>DeWayne Landwehr like many boys who grew up in small-town America lived through physical and sexual abuse-but he also enjoyed some great times. His early memories involved raising chickens: There were always eggs to gather. Every day the family would bring them to the basement to be washed candled graded and sold-or washed sanitized and assembled into the trays for the incubator depending on whether they were to be eaten or hatched into more chickens.</p><p>With three older siblings he could not wait to go to school. Every day he'd see his siblings go to class-and it seemed so magical. The entire school system was located right across the street in three buildings.</p><p>Later he started working his way to college at a gas station on the famous Route 66 where he encountered people of varying backgrounds. He struggled with the sometimes dishonest practices of his boss contrasted with the necessity of keeping a job and met interesting characters along the way.</p>