This is my life story, from birth to age eighty. During that period, I was not accepted by my birth mother or father or by their families. I became a ward of the court, foster child to a family, someone created through incest in the genes, and child abducted from New York to California. Yet I survived and made something out of myself, going from a life of being unwanted to a life of a having a beautiful wife, four wonderful kids, eleven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

At the ripe old age of eighty, I am sub teaching in high school and doing lots of traveling, just got back from visiting twenty-six states in the United States by automobile, what a novel idea. I'm planning our next trip and starting to plan our sixtieth if the good Lord is willing for me to be present at the age of eighty-four.