Vicarious Healing

This is a fictional story about Attorney John Doe- a highly successful South Carolinian legal professional who grew to treasure Low-country natural surroundings and business dealings above human relationships. When fate's thorny needle injected personal tragedy into his once pristine life, he emotionally detached leaving an alleged incorrigible wife, unreachable son and disloyal employee in aftermath's wake.

Derision, cynicism and criticism soon anesthetized him lessening the impact of his fall. Tender feelings for mankind ceased coursing through his veins. Attorney Doe rerouted all internal circuitry disallowing himself to experience even the beautiful rhythms of his own heart beating- that is, until a chance encounter with an injured snowy egret ...