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The Butterfly Hunter eBooks
by Chris Ballard
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Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
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Windows 98+, Tablet PC, Pocket PC 2003 Features
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All Palm & Pocket PC handheld devices plus all Windows and Macintosh computers. Features
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The Butterfly Hunter Summary
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ONE THE SKYWALKER Sometimes a wonderful confluence occurs and what a person does for a living not only makes him happy but also makes the rest of us happy. By that I don't mean that this person is providing some service that makes our lives better. Rather, I mean that this person being content, and, more important, occupied, is preferable for the rest of us, because God knows what he'd be doing otherwise. In the case of Spiderman Mulholland, he followed his own unusual interests and found not only a calling, but, in many ways, peace. I heard about Mulholland when my friend Owen, who was then working at the Rocky Mountain News, in Denver, forwarded me a story from his paper, dated April 27, 2004, titled, "The Amazing Spiderman Saves the Day with Flag Fix." Here's how the story began: BROWN PALACE HIRES HERO'S NAMESAKE FOR AERIAL REPAIR A real-life version of classic Marvel comics hero Spider-Man created a spectacle for passers-by when he scaled one of the Denver landmark's rooftop flagpoles to make an otherwise routine repair before rappelling headfirst to safety. The hotel flew in Spiderman Scott Mulholland from his home base in Pensacola, Fla., to fix a pulley that got stuck about six weeks ago at the top of a 40-foot flagpole at the edge of the 10-story building's roof. The 42-year-old former Marine, who has built a multimillion-dollar business doing repairs and cleaning on what he calls "suicidal buildings," said he paid Marvel to use the Spiderman name for his business. He flashed his driver's license to prove he legally changed his own first name as well. It seemed too good, or perhaps too weird, to be true. A former Marine who calls himself Spiderman and scales buildings. Unusual: check. Enthusiastic: check. Potentially unstable: also a check. But if so, he was certainly a functional delusional, and that is the most interesting kind (Howard Hughes being a prime exampl... |
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