Daniel V. Townsend

As a boy born to replace a SIDs baby James Daniel, I know I was a replacement child so that my parents would have a boy. I had lots of issues with pneumonia before age 2. My lungs were scarred so I have suffered all my life. By age 12 I had mostly out grown most of Asthma and began to play football and track. My parents were strong Christians which helped me become a born-again follower by age 12. My faith has effected me all of my life and made decisions difficult in many times. This wonderful book is my life story and is about my deep love for Bonnye. Today we live only 26 miles apart. She is a widow and I'm divorced yet we still can't get together. We fell in love at age 16 and were unseprable until time for college. Her mother apparently was afraid we'd run off and marry so she sent Bonnye to far off Greenville, NC from where I had a football Scholarship in Winston Salem, NC. Her mother told me to leave her alone and this was very strong in keeping us apart though we had some periodic dates in the early years of college.The very reason I wrote the book, as I became Human Resource Manager in many cities, is truthfully if I'd ask Bonnye I believe she would say "Yes", yet I was troubled by God to honor her mother, and live with a broken heart to this day. So it was a life of struggle to not go to Bonnye and plea for marriage all my life. I felt God had played a big role. I was highly successful in business. More that the son of cobblers could dream. I was the first to go to college and I had lots of drive, determination and care. The book is pinned with a false identity, but I gave the book to her. Sadly she agrees with me, but said her mom meant before age 21.