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Doom's overdone, so Darby shares hope and hard laughs.Fraternal Youth is an experimental memoir with QR codes to videos and cultural artifacts such as: - their dog fetching beer from the fridge (a COVID project) - gladiator funboard challenges - family performances - mom pranks - gag reels Fraternal Youth Cocktail: 5 parts fatherhood fails + the absurdity of life 4 parts goofy boy-girl twins + their crazy pets 3 parts adventure (Bonnaroo, Greece, hitchhiking) 2 parts peaceful parenting + simple discipline systems 1 part Headlines of Hope: a six-year hunt for tech, medical and energy breakthroughs + my comical spin Praise for Fraternal Youth⭐ ""Mix Jim Gaffigan, Erma Bombeck and Pee Wee Herman into a Darby Smoothie. Add a dash of nonsense that makes perfect sense and you've got a compilation that spans from raising kids to raising hell. I'm an avid fan."" - Wendy Parker, satirist for Overdrive Magazine ⭐ ""Darby stunned me with this book. It's happy, funny, sad and weird - all the things that make up a life well lived, and he tells it with such beauty and momentum. So many chapters swept me away."" - Ginger Cook, Substack Humorist Early ExcerptsI changed my first diaper on August 27, 2007. It smelled like fermented mothballs with a touch of failed dreams. I don't know where those subtle notes came from, but they were good reminders to use birth control. 2 years, 8 months oldKids got in trouble at the store. Finn dropped a can of tinned pork on Melina's middle toe. The SPAM survived, but Momma no longer has a piggy that eats roast beef. The toe's still there, but it's a scarred vegetarian now. 3 years, 8 months""Finn, didn't you say you'd drink your juice after dinner?"" ""I didn't hear me say that."" 4 years, 10 months""Shhhh! I heard a sound make a noise."" - Fiona 5 years, 11 months""Every time you go into war, you should go potty first."" - Finn

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Praise for Fraternal Youth ⭐ ""Mix Jim Gaffigan, Erma Bombeck and Pee Wee Herman into a Darby Smoothie. Add a dash of nonsense that makes perfect sense and you've got a compilation that spans from raising kids to raising hell. I'm an avid fan."" Wendy Parker, satirist for Overdrive Magazine ⭐ ""Darby stunned me with this book. It's happy, funny, sad and weird - all the things that make up a life well lived, and he tells it with such beauty and momentum. So many chapters swept me away."" Ginger Cook, Humorist on Substack

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