The Veer family had a long record of failure, it was a family tree grown from feeble roots. They had had many opportunities for success but at the first hint of difficulty, the first signs of challenge they would give up and shrink away. Once things got hard they just gave up and generation after generation had done the same.
Standing in the church and seeing her new baby boy in the vicar's arms Catherine prayed that this child would different, this child would finally break the hereditary spinelesness. This child would succeed where all the others had just thrown in the towel.
She was woken from her thoughts by the sound of the vicar christening her offspring. She saw him drop the water on the baby's head and heard his voice baptising him with his new name - Percy Veer. Could this child be different?
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