The Normal Man

The Normal ManWhen Raymond Terris was thirteen years old he began to grow -- shooting upward like a rangy weed. He had always been a strong, handsome child with a big frame, taller than his age average, but otherwise not out of the ordinary. Both his parents were of middling size and his mother was on the short side. Alex Terris, his father, was rather proud at first when thirteen-year-old Raymond outgrew him, and used to say that Ray must be a throwback to his great-grandfather, the pioneer, wh...