num_pages: 263
description: For much of my early life I lived in Watertown, NY, where I was born in 1926. I enlisted in the Navy with a close friend in 1944 through 1945 at age 17, finished high school afterward, and was married in 1945 at age 18. Our first born of five girls was Christina Martin, born in 1947, who is the daughter my bio-graphical novel is about. In 1952, I used the balance of my G.I. Bill to attend college center extension classes of St. Lawrence University that were held in the evening at Watertown High School. There I accumulated approximately fifty-two college credit hours. For a period of time I sold cars, and then for a brief time, insurance. I then spent thirty-one years in the sales department and consumer relations department for our upstate New York power company, Niagra Mohawk Power Corporation, and retired at age 60. Christina (Tina) was 40. My novel was written thirteen years after my daughter, Christina, passed away. I had thought about it always through those 13 years and finally decided it was time. I now reside in Henderson Harbor, New York, on Lake Ontario.
language: English
title: Sweet Pea: There was a little girl who had a little curl---
titlecomplete: Sweet Pea: There was a little girl who had a little curl---
publisher: PublishAmerica