A Lifetime of Coincidents

By Jack Tep

This book is about coincidences that have happened in my life that affected the American public, from cities being changed forever once we left to important buildings being raised. These are just a few incidents that can be remembered. Sayings such as rip off or under the bus are identified and repeated often publicly. Somehow, songs of the fifties could be traced to my experiences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524548322

Jack Tep

Senior Citizen who wants to explain his life experiences. I've had many songs, movies that can be talked about, however at this stage of my life, I cannot remember these episodes. For that reason I cannot call the book a novel without giving particular or specific dates. It seems that every town in which we lived was changed, many important stadiums changed or torn down. Many of which were not mentioned in the book. You may want to ask the question WHY. I cannor give a definite answer.

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A Lifetime of Coincidents

Jack Tep

Copyright © 2016 by Jack Tep.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2016916380

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5245-4834-6

                Softcover        978-1-5245-4833-9

                eBook             978-1-5245-4832-2

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Rev. date: 10/07/2016

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Introduction

The music, movies, and numerous other bits of popular culture mentioned in this book were never really about my life. But somehow, from time to time, they just fit it like a glove. Just as some of them may have done for you in your own lives. Or just as some completely different slices of the changing cultural scene—perhaps Satin Doll or another beautiful Duke Ellington tune voiced by the guitar of Joe Pass, or the outsider’s lament of Boy George singing the title song of the movie called The Crying Game—may have done for people of other generations than my own.

The point is this one of a kind book playfully explores specific moments in my life when either coincidence or chance delivered songs, movies, fads, and turns of history that resonated strongly for me and for people around me. Those things weren’t about me, and I certainly didn’t cause them to happen. But they did happen, and they did form part of the sound track of my life, reflecting key moments in both my personal history and the much bigger world around all of us. I hope you’ll enjoy experiencing these meaningful echoes, and in that process, you will reflect on the many funny ways that the culture around us can mirror our own life and time.

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