Warren Rosenstengel grew up in rural Missouri, married his high school sweetheart, and built a successful business. He remembers his down-to-earth mother, his gentle father who became a policeman and was killed on the job, and especially his big brother, Neal, who always had his back, no matter what. Warren tells his story with a tongue-in-cheek style, and a deep appreciation of his good fortune in finding the perfect wife at seventeen. She was thirteen at the time. They married a month after her high school graduation, raised two wonderful children and have six grandchildren. Warren retired before Charlotte and found himself with time on his hands. She told him to "go sit down and write about your life". So he did.