Brief Summary Of The Long Road By Randy Bragg

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Randy Bragg starts the book off as a lawyer who lives off his inheritance. He is a failed politician who appeared to be living a wonderful life full off alcohol and women. He did have a few survival skills since he did go off to war after college. The book described as a hermit who lived alone expect for the girls we would have over, he even worked from home. So when he finds out that the end is near he prepares himself.
Before the war randy goes and buys the things that he feels he will need to survive and he warns the Henrys who lived on a small farm by a river. Randy informing the Henry family of what was to come was the setting stone of him preparing to go and live of the land. Once the power goes out you can see that randy beings to

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