I was born. I am alive. Someday I will die. What more can be said about any of us? I believe in the concept of forgetting self. This book is as much a confession as a novel, and so many of the emotions are drawn from personal experience; as an adulterer, which I am not proud of, and as an alcoholic. Tis' a saint that has no skeletons in his closet. I was born in the Midwest, and grew up living a normal middle class life. After graduating I worked a series of dead end jobs, until going into the military four years later. After the military I worked as an electronic technician until retiring.