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This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
W. Shelley Viall was born in Dayton, Ky.
He served in Army of United States, Dec. 1942 thru Dec. 1945.
He graduated, Aeronautical Engineer, U. of Cincinnati, 1949 and worked forty one years in the Aircraft Industry.
He retired 1988.
During his employment years, he authored papers in Engineering Journals of the S.A.E. and A.S.M.E technical societies and co-authored Patent Claims for his inventions. He wrote articles in a monthly Service News magazine published by his employer and sent to their customers. He authored sections of Research Documents submitted to the FAA and the U.S. Air Force by his former employer.
This is a story for the many who have long been convinced that they would never remarry when the death of their spouse occurs.
By the time you and your spouse have celebrated your fifty fourth wedding anniversary together, you are all the more firmly convinced that by some improbable chance, you both will pass away due to natural causes on a given day at the same hour.
To the contrary, the number of surviving septuagenarians that remarry is steadily on the increase.
Read about the adventure of Ned when his Kathy succumbs to heart failure. Because this was a forseeable possibility, Kathy, for several years had counseled him to remarry when the event occurs. Ned is one of the fortunate ones who feels no obligation to live out his days in loneliness.
Imagining that he had almost screwed up enough courage to ring Marian’s doorbell, Ned paused for one last mental recap of how he could go this far. This gal was not going to remember anything about him, his name, what he looked like years ago, where they met, their first date, Hell, not even their last date and why it was their last date.
As an admonition, his wife of fifty-five years, Kathy, had often said, "Ned Shelle, you better get married again within a few days after I’m gone or you’ll starve to death and be wearing dirty underwear"! Kathy suffers from cardiac arrythmia and rationalizes that Ned will outlive her.
A widower who seeks out a divorcee whom he dated in high school, with the intent to renew the old friendship, i.e. marriage or a meaningful relationship. He makes several attempts to reach her by mail and by phone with no response. While he awaits some reply, he imagines how an actual meeting with her might ensue. He will take her on a cruise onboard the private yacht of his close friend, Bill.
When he discovers that she is deceased, undaunted, Ned contemplates a suit for Shirley, a lady recently widowed, whom he and Kathy have known for over forty years. When Kathy has passed away, he woos and wins the lady. They must adjust to family situations wholly new to, and unexpected by each of them.
Unexpectedly, due to an old legal oversight, Ned is discovered to be the owner of the land on which is located a small golf course in New England, near the birthplace of his father and his uncle. The business is for sale and Ned buys it for half price. He and Shirley travel to the area to close the deal.
While there, Shirley asks to see the old family residence. They rummage through some old letters in the barn and find a love letter written to Ned’s father many years ago. The letter reveals it is likely that Ned has, or had, a half brother somewhere. They embark on a search the local newspaper archives in the attemp to trace such a person.
They encounter some success, but hesitate to confront the person most likely to be the object of the search with his true identity.
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