Table of Contents
Front Matter
Chapters
- Introduction
- My Family, My Story
- Heart Starting to Work Hard
- My Special Day
- April 21, 1961 — A Day That Shelter Island Will Never Forget
- The Search for Earl
- What to Tell the Children
- Grumman Even Sent Out Helicopters to Help with the Search
- Finally Some Closure
- They Return Earl Home
- The Wake
- The Service
- A Fight
- A Special Man
- Some Closure
- Going Ahead in My Life a Bit
- Growing Up on Pop's Farm
- Top of the Milk
- Raising Chicks
- A Special Gift from Pop
- Togo Passing
- Money — A Way to Use It
- Today Is the Day I'm Going to See the Baby Goat
- The Farm Was Slowing Down
- Cat Returns Home
- Getting a Keepsake from the Farm
- Mom Set Up on a Blind Date
- Mom's Wedding Day
- The Cats at Their Best
- Science Project
- New Cats on the Farm
- Started to Babysit
- A Call from a Lawyer
- Enrolled in Beauty School Using My Inheritance
- Yours, Mine, and Ours
- Getting Ready for My Wedding Day
- My Wedding Day
- Duck Egg Found at a Pond's Edge
- After This, I Started Breading Pekinese
- Werner, My Second Dad, Passes in 1987
- My Niece and Sister Need My Help
- Mom Turns Eighty
- Mom Had a Major Aneurism in the Base of Her Brain
- The Merge of the Two Fire Departments
- Meeting a Special Lady on the Island — Knew of Her But Never Met Her
- Grandchildren
- My Baby Cockatiel
- Conclusion