Writing this memoir has given me the opportunity to rediscover those people and events in my long life that I treasure. Each of my stories, the happy, the challenging, and the sad ones have a special significance for me. My hope is that they may resonate with some of your experiences.
My life has been full and rich beginning in Indonesia in 1941 when I was born into a loving family. World War II was still going on and before I was five years old...