Harker Jones, LA screenwriter & former managing editor of "Out" magazine, recalls a childhood vacation on Mackinac Island, where a caricature artist labels his sister "cute" and him a "clown" and how those images haunted him for years.

Tell Me What Happened by Jay Rehak

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While on a childhood vacation on Mackinac Island, Michigan, eight year old Harker Jones and his younger sister are drawn by a caricature artist. The caricaturist draws and labels his little sister "cute," while drawing and labelling Harker as a "clown." For years, and until only very recently, those two images haunted him for as they hung on the wall of his family's home.

Harker Jones grew up on a dirt road in Michigan in a town so small it doesn’t to this day have a traffic light. He has written an Amazon #1 best-selling love story,

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