My father wanted me to be a farmer, my mother wanted me to be good. Donald Blaine Rawlins; Son, Brother, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Friend is a book about a humble man born in the year of the great depression and has witnessed many of the modern day miracles that were nonexistant in his youth. He has traveled and lived a full life, outliving two wives, father to seven children and countless grand and great grand children.