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During the recession of 2008 the author comes to the realization that his 30 year architectural drafting career is coming to an end. With computers now at the forefront of architectural design, drafting with a lead drafting pencil is now a lost art as the last lead holders fade away ...but, if you can draw from a lifetime of experiences through the diversities that shaped your character and strengths, they can help you continue on with your quest for fulfillment's.

The author tells of his struggles through his unemployment hardship's while helping his ailing father adjust to his longtime illness, remodeling his parents bathrooms to be handicap accessible, he passes by the family photos on the walls as he is reminded of his happy childhood, reminiscing stories lost in time with his parents ...his coming of age story begins to unfold, taking you back in time to the first memories of a young child of a military family in Rapid City, South Dakota ...sometimes dark, the author's family moves to Columbus, Mississippi during the late 1960's as his family settles into an American society that they were not familiar with, as the social changes of those turbulent years takes his father off to war ...His father returns home from the war in Vietnam, moving to another air base in Bunker Hill, Indiana. It was a simpler time remembered, playing in the woods, creeks, lakes and rivers of his youth with his siblings, as his father retires from the U.S. Air Force in the summer the "spirit of 76" as America celebrated it's bicentennial. Remembering the settlers that went before them, they move across the country on there overland adventure to settle in the city of Citrus Heights, California ...It was still a time of innocence, when boys were free to explore the beautiful Sierra foothills and when every weekend was an adventure in the making. Follow the protagonist in so many of his misadventures, mistakes, wins and losses as the string of fortuitous circumstances that started his remarkable architectural career at a young age unfold ...bringing him back to the present day, as he finds the joy and pain of spending precious time at a passing Fathers side. Well crafted, honest and beautifully written, fight, laugh, love, and cry, with a story that will touch all your emotions, as it brings you back to the memories of a bygone era ... The Last Lead Holders - quest for fulfillment.