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ISBN: 9781483551524

For Chris

Very special thanks and a swig of the Merlot to:

David Gates, Aristotle, Sardou, Illica, Giacosa and Puccini for allowing Donkey Oety to borrow their beautiful music and wise words.

This is a tale of Donkey Otey and his pal Sanchez.

Donkey was a stunning creature with a dry wit and a passion for Merlot.

Sanchez on the other hand was part pirate, part parrot and ruled a small island off of the coast of, well off of the coast of nowhere really. The island was merely a sandbar in the middle of a wide, wide river. Nonetheless, Sanchez called it home and spent hours upon hours, telling Donkey Otey of his exploits there.