CHAPTER TWO:  Life Happens

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On Saturday, January 28, 1967, I married my best friend...thirty-nine, short years later I lost him.  We relocated to his hometown in northern Michigan and started our own family later that year.  We've been blessed with two sons, and we currently have four, beautiful grandchildren.  Initially, it wasn't an easy move for me; however, I'd do it all over again!  It was difficult leaving all and everyone I knew behind, but it was the first, real adventure of my lifetime, and it has sustained all these years.  I still enjoy adventures and pushing the envelope of my personal and physical comfort zones.  "The only easy day was yesterday."

When I felt confident my sons were old enough to survive the demands of dual, parental careers, I entered both the law enforcement and military communities...and their often-skewed demands on a family.  It appears my sons also inherited my mother's grit and determination.  I retired from the sheriff department  in 2000 and the naval reserve in 2004.
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Rollie

Roland Gale Cook
September 15, 1945 - November 15, 2006


Brewski

(Still under construction and awaiting legal advice.)

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