Thus I Came

This book is a revised and expanded version of Thus I Came - short stories that I have been privileged to relate (2018). A : Recall some joyful wits rendered by my pre-kindergartener kids and grandkids (pp. 2 - 23). B : My mother strived to raise four kids as an illiterate farm laborer during my father's five-year imprisonment for alleged subversion of Government. Unforeseen happenstances that somehow catapulted me from the verge of quitting school to college on a path dotted with financial and