Thank you Sarge your kind comments are much appreciated and I'm surprising myself with the clarity of the narrative and relieved that I still can recall the basic outline though I'll have to use imagination to clothe the gaps.

My best beloved has greatly assisted by, to my surprise, producing some of my hand written journals which also contain many story based pictures. How the hell she thought to squirrel this stuff away and somehow get it from VA to NY I have no idea.