7Everyone has a story to tell that only they know-their life story. This is my life story, a story of overcoming difficult, seemingly-impossible challenges, a love story, a story of victory, where victory seemed but just a dream. You will feel my pain as well as my joy as you read of the life of a small-town boy who grows up into the world where hate, greed, and sorrow are present everywhere . . . All these and more are defeated by the love of a wife, three children, their children, and their children's children.