7 Is Enough

By Allen Webb

I wrote this book for two main reasons. First reason is I woke up every day with these stories on my mind. I knew for some reason I needed to write them down.

The second reason is for future women. Quite honestly I get tired of telling these stories to strangers because most think there is no way this could happen to one person. I can assure you that all stories contained in this book are true and happened to me. If I am interested in a lady again and she is getting interested in me I will just let her read this book. If she is still interested in me then I hope the next chapter is a long one. And full of only good stories.

This is my first book. I did not write this book to make money but that would be a pleasant surprise if it did. English was always my worst subject in school and college.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664120433

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7 IS ENOUGH

ALLEN WEBB

Copyright © 2020 by Allen Webb.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

I have changed all the names in these stories; even the pets’ names have been changed. I omitted mention of the names of towns or cities or employers. Only I, Allen Webb, the author of this book, know the true names and/or stories contained in this book.

If you are an ex-wife of mine then you are one of six women on this planet—all the ex-wives are alive to my knowledge. You might read the stories and conclude that a chapter is about You. If so, I conclude it is entirely a coincidence and only you know the truth.

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Rev. date: 09/29/2020

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I dedicate this book to my ex-wives because it would not exist without them. I cannot explain it because I know of several young men who married right after high school and are still married. So go figure.

I also dedicate this book to a good friend I met in my last independent living facility, with the initials DJ. DJ is still alive, married once, no children, about seventy-four years old, and was a true friend to me. She read this book more than once.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - Wife #1

Chapter 2 - Wife #2

Chapter 3 - Wife #3

Chapter 4 & 5 - Wife #4/5

Chapter 6 - Wife #6

Chapter 7 - Wife #7

Conclusions

The Brain Bleed

Children of Divorce

Conclusions on Life

Chapter 1

WIFE #1

Wanda and I met in a marching band when I was a junior in high school and she was a sophomore. I played B-flat trumpet and E-flat trumpet, and Wanda played the clarinet. We had fun because we got to go to all the football and basketball games. We also played in concert band, and I played in the jazz band. Wanda had two younger brothers and I did as well. I also had a two-year older sister. My older sister had a boyfriend her age, and he played football for our high school team.

Wanda and I dated all through my high school years. And my first three years of college. We learned everything about each other. I remained faithful to her and she to me as far as I knew. In my senior year, I obtained a first alternate appointment to the Air Force Academy as well as a co-op scholarship at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. This co-op scholarship allowed me to live and work at home during college. My dad worked at the Arnold Engineering/Air Force Station about twelve miles from home. I would work that first summer quarter there before I actually started college. The next summer I would work there and alternate quarters between college and work. It paid a high wage compared to what was available in the area. I had to make a choice of the two options, the co-op scholarship at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee or the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I had to mail off a card to the Air Force Academy. It was a hard decision to make. I weighed all the options and I chose the co-op scholarship. I worked that first summer after high school and then started college in the fall of 1973 for nine months, and then back to work for the summer quarter of 1974. It would take all of five years to get my Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering if you stayed on schedule. I slipped a little and had to go one more quarter, the summer of 1978, to graduate.

Wanda and I got married at the end of the fall quarter of 1976 (I’m guessing December of 1976). My dad was against us being married (I should have listened to him). Wanda was not religious at all. Dad smelled trouble. Dad said, You are totally on your own financially after you get married.

Wanda and I dated through college up until the marriage, in December of 1976. So for almost three years (December of 1976 through August of 1978), we had to make it on our own financially. We did. We worked many jobs. Sometimes more than one job at a time. Graduation approached and I started interviewing.

I got one job offer in Wichita, Kansas, with Boeing’s Military Division. I made a single trip over there from Knoxville, Tennessee. It was decent money but the trip(s) home would add up. Wanda nor I had ever worked and lived that far away from family before. I would be given a job offer to return to the place I had co-opted before. We chose to continue interviewing and waited for that job offer to come in. The job would at least be at home.

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