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A Life Well Lived
My wife, Diane, and I made the decision over fifty years ago to have two children. It was more a matter of time than money. We knew that the future would bring unknown challenges and we wanted to be able to ensure that our two children would have a good shot at happiness. We had two girls. My weightlifter friends prodded me incessantly to have a son but, fate had not included a boy. My daughters water skiied, snow skiied, hiked for miles and played flag football. I was happy. They are still happy, healthy and beautiful women. Strong women. They were born in Southern California during the 1970s. By the mid 1980s the Cocaine problem in Southern California was so prolific that we moved, lock – stock – and barrel, to Northern California with our daughters and their two horses. We bought twenty acres in Grass Valley and lived the country life. To my knowledge our daughters never got involved in drugs and my many friends in SoCal had a number of cases of their kids destroyed by drugs. My income had gone from just under 2ooK to scattered work at an hourly wage. A Southern California General Contractor was foreign to the small town of Grass Valley. We learned to live with less and we were just fine; our daughters turned out just fine.