Sweeping the Clouds Away by Michael Shepley Soldiers Memorial please stop by in-store at

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Sweeping the Clouds Away by Michael Shepley Soldiers Memorial please stop by in-store atSweeping the Clouds Away is an honest and often humorous account of growing up as a gay adolescent and teenager in the 1950s and 60s. The authors emotional highs and lows were complemented by spiritual lifelines he drew from Americas show business past and its entertainments of the day. Accounts of his loving, complicated family, a solid friendship, and a series of remarkable opportunities are enhanced by persistent life lessons of optimism and, in