True Love the Hard Way

Book by Carpenter, Ray

Ray Carpenter has had a very unusual and eventful life. Sports in High School plus Pilots License at age 16. After High School he entered the Navy the day after graduation. He was first assigned to Naval Intelligence in San Francisco, CA. later reassigned to a Special Services U.S.O. Entertainment Unit singing and acting as Master of Ceremonies.. After the Navy he worked a while as Disk Jockey and Sports Announcer and attended college. He worked in construction, later married, and moved to California where he went into the Funeral business with his father-in-law after graduating from the Los Angeles College of Mortuary Science. It was there that he met and became friends with many people since his firm was one of the District Deputy Coroners of Los Angeles. They handled the Coroners Cases until the Coroners Doctor could come to the Mortuary. He has also been a Special Agent for two Insurance Companies and Regional Mgr. for one company. This meant that he met and became friends with people from all walks of life including Street People. Some of those people he met and became friends with are those people characterized in this story. Now he is 77 years of age and happily married to his wife Faye of 32 years. He loves life and all it has to offer. Each day is a new experience for him. He is anxious for the sun to rise so he can find what new things it has to offer.