Why Her? Why Not Me?: A Series of Deep Familial Misfortunes, Including the Loss of Two Wives, Tests the Mettle of an Advanced-Aged Father Charged with Raising Two Sets of Generationally-Separated Children

This life story traces a major segment of Rolands adult life, an adult life riddled with devastating personal events. During the past thirty years, Roland has had ample opportunities to indulge in self-pity and to become extremely deft at it. In large part, this stems from the parade of very unique and scarring events that have beset his two sets of children and himself: (1) his having to singly raise his five children after his wife of seventeen years abandons him and their children for an...