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Chapter 6

Get Away: Stunning Punta Cana

If you want to go fast, go alone. But,

if you want to go far, go together.

- AFRICAN ADAGE

Lafayette, Louisiana

LAFAYETTE REGIONAL AIRPORT
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WO-HUNDRED-FOURTEEN DAYS INTO HIS DREAM CAREER -- ALONZO’S

enthusiastically -- looks forward to a well-deserved vacation in the
Caribbean. Then in a flash, his life deviated pugnaciously off course.
Suddenly and unimaginably, his well-being and sanity are pushed to the brink.

Until a week ago Alonzo heads the institutional advancement division at a
technical college in the Gulf Coast. But today, he finds himself in a fight of his life --
he’s out of work -- 21 years of eminent career in fund development and philanthropy

disappears like the wind. The crisis from loss of his career intensifies with a looming
foreclosure on his home -- both of which turn his orderly life into a rollercoaster of
misfortune and pandemonium. And his world is thrown into chaos.