Download or read book Random Thoughts of an Old Man written by Charlie Anderson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking back at a man's life, this work includes his growing up in the 40's in Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico. He was a teenager in Texas, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and served in the Air Force, and got married in the 50's. He returned to Texas permanently, and divorced in the late 60's, and remarried.

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