"Miss Slappy Gets an Admirer"

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There are only two residents along the piney wetland of Wack Road: Finley Wack, recycler and handyman, and Sara-Lapis Hughes, “Slappy” to her family. Slappy has just purchased her first house — a derelict property inherited from her seven irresponsible brothers. She buys it at a courthouse auction, planning to “flip” it and prove a point. Unfortunately, she soon discovers the neighboring property has become a junkyard, owned and operated by none other than Finley Wack. After thirty years of living alone, Sara-Lapis knows how to dodge drunks and ignore unwanted advances. But Finley Wack is different. His public arguments with God are easier to overlook than his persistent admiration — and his offers to help. Once determined to understand everything, Fin gave up on solving the mysteries of the universe and turned his focus to loving his neighbor — literally. Life became more interesting when he recycled all his books and started talking with God openly in the streets of Newcomb, making friends and finding unexpected purpose. Then he meets Slappy Hughes — and falls hard. In Miss Slappy Gets an Admirer, Fin pursues Slappy while she blocks his advances, joins an old ladies’ club by accident, courts the gentlemanly Ed Wilcox, and finds herself in the middle of a town-wide garbage war. Will this midlife mismatch end in love? Slappy is stubborn, but Fin has faith.