Born August 19, 1948, in Dallas, Texas. My father was half Comanche Indian and half German. My mother was over fifty percent Cherokee Indian. My life has experienced many exit points of instant death, yet I never got hurt. These were near-death events that were only decided by fractions of a second. (My next and final book will provide those details). I was an average high school student but excelled in sports—Track, Tennis, Weightlifting, etc. Basically, in weightlifting doing the one-arm Olympic snatch would have easily placed 2nd in the World Olympics in 1966 in 148 weight class with a 125 to 130 pounds lift.I believe that so many near-deaths negatively affected me.
Then, the biggest traumatic event imaginable was the car crash that took Susie’s life and our unborn child from me. So traumatic that I blocked Susie and the crash from my mind. I had no memory of this for over forty-three years until a short time after my wife Kaye passed away in 2012. An old friend from that time had a picture of Susie and me at their wedding in 1968. Immediately upon looking at the picture, the flashbacks started like a repetitive sequence in my mind. That occurred in about April 2012. So, it has taken me over eleven years on this journey to decide to make it a book. The final event for making this decision was finding the letter from Susie. I had already found the two letters from my wife Kaye addressed to our two sons. But Susie’s letter of love was enough. Plus, there was a twin heart symbol in this letter.