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About the author

I grew up in a small rural town in southern Iowa which is a church orientated community. There I learned values and manners. I also, got an education with a Business Degree, married and raised my family. I managed group homes for both the state of Iowa and Missouri in my career.

About the book

As a boy, David meets an interesting woman, Pearl, through his grandmother, Pauline. Pearl is a middle – aged Creole woman with a little dog who comes in and out of David’s life the rest of his life. Pearl is a strong woman with strong convictions of what is right and wrong for David, and she seems to appear and vanish as fast as she has come into his life.

David is smitten with Pearl and has so many questions when she is around. Questions that Pearl and has so many questions when she is around. Questions that Pearl is reluctant to give David the answers to until she seems it the right time to answer them. It seems to David that everyone knows but him what is going on, and he is right; they do.

David has some hardships through his life that also aid in molding his life and his thinking, but Pearl is driven to keep him on the right path.

The older he gets, the more she tells him until she opens up her life to him, as odd as it is, until David knows what his future is, and he takes control and makes his mark on the world.

In the 70’s I had several encounters with the supernatural wish led me to start thinking about rapture in the Bible. I realized what we call “spontaneous combustion” is actually someone being “raptured.” The book relied on this realization as one of the main components.