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Most of all, he couldn't focus on living there while his buddies were dying in Iraq. His mother Ava Tomson says, "He felt like the things he was doing in his job were insignificant compared to protecting his guys...
...those kids who seem born into uniform. As a youth, he had a set of junior fatigues he wore as often as his mother would let him. "I used to have to wait until Lucas went to sleep to get it off him to wash it," says Tomson...
...yard climbing trees and building G.I. Joe forts. He carried a Cabbage Patch doll named Sylvester, dressed in matching camo, under his arm. In school, teachers had trouble channeling his enthusiasm into classwork. "He could look at something and fix it. He didn't need a book," says Tomson. "In the military, it's hands on. He was in his element...
...take less time to write than to read, he will find Smith the most lushly loony character of the year. Donleavy simply cannot help being comic even when the symbols and portents crowd thickest. The narrative interest-such as it is-centers on Smith's love for Miss Tomson, a genuinely imagined dream figure of sexual grace who will never become a member of the wedding. She dies, of course, and is buried at sea. Darkly Byronic to the last, Smith glowers at the sunset. "Bubbles and wreaths are left. But maybe you'd like to know that...
Harding and Tomson hope some day to make Animal Livestock a worldwide business; but for all their readiness to assume risks, they draw the line at such freaks as two-headed pigs and six-legged dogs. "Deformed animals aren't good physical risks," says Frank Harding, "and besides, it isn't dignified...