Frank the limbless man.

Hi I’m Frank and I’m limbless, the group chimes in “Hi Frank!”. I guess I should start at the beginning . My mother was a hippie so during her pregnancy she was experimenting with crystal meth, marijuana, opium, uppers, downers, sidewaysers, and the occasional painkiller, I came out like a hotdog with a head. By the time I was one my mother had tried to kill me seven times exclaiming, “The poor sausage needs to be put out of his misery!”. So to say the least, I was taken quickly by the social services.
I lived in about fourteen orphanages and learned to roll up stairs, how to roll away from a fight, I even learned that all you need to live your life is a mission and mine was to get away. Then after I became eighteen and the orphan homes no longer had a say over my life I became a drifter, rolling from town to town hitchhiking with my tongue, I was a wanderer. Then I wound up in a small north Virginia town where I met Sally, The limbless beauty of my dreams she had long brown hair and a coke can figure. Sally was amazing as soon as we met each other we knew that we were meant to be together. We spent the next week in pure ecstasy rolling around with each other and rolling around with each other but I knew it couldn’t last. I was a free spirit and Sally couldn’t just leave her family because with my lifestyle we may have never returned to that small North Virginian town. So with a tear in my eye and a hope in my heart, that I could someday meet back up with Sally I left rolled on out of that town.
Next I met someone that would influence my life almost as much as Sally did, I met Red he was a fire breather for the “Farnum & Failey circus” he told me “Boy you could go places.” and that was the beginning of life in the circus. I became the main attraction in the freak show, I was billed “Magnifico The Limbless!!”. They taught me how to roll through a flaming hoop, roll on a tightrope, and even roll over a bed of nails. The circus gave me a strange fulfillment I had something there that I had never experienced in my life aside from that brief time with Sally it was Acceptance, honor even, I had a real family in that freak show. After about six years in that circus I had earned enough money to buy a specially made car that I could control solely with my tongue, so I left that circus said my tearful goodbyes to Red and went on my way. I loved my circus family but, I longed to see Sally.
I drove straight to Virginia I needed to see Sally it had been fifteen years I had changed, I was willing to settle down for the love of my life. I looked up her family name and found her parents, I drove to their house and talked to them for quite a while about my life and the things I had done but, I couldn’t wait any longer I said “Where is Sally.”. They told me and I will never forget what they said to my they said “Sally waited ten years for you Frank, and assumed that you had forgotten about her. So she found a nice boy and married him. They live down in Texas now.” I bolted out the door as soon as I heard that painful news they yelled that there was something else but, I couldn’t wait one second longer I was driving as fast as my tongue could push the accelerator and I was off.
When I arrived in Texas I hired a private investigator outside of Houston to find her and in about a weeks time he found me the address. So I rolled on up to the door of that house , it was the longest sidewalk I had ever rolled, and I knocked on the door. A man came up he was whole and without fault he said “You must be Frank, Sally told me about you, before...” I couldn’t believe what he was implying “Before what! Oh God Before what!” The man told me she had died and I couldn’t handle any more pain like that so I drove my car down to the river and rolled myself off of the bridge. I then learned that I float head-up and would not drown as I had wished, Oh cruel Fate, I was then rescued by a friendly fisherman. He took me into his car and drove me to the hospital where they referred me to this depressed limbless support group, so here I am. I have no Idea what I will do next with my life.

To be continued....