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These are the true stories of a boy born in 1950 to deaf parents in Los Angeles who grew up in Redondo Beach spending much of his youth in the South Bay area of Southern California, surfing, hot-rodding cars, dirt bikes, and dreaming of being an actor or the next Elvis. After high school he sidesteps an education at UCLA by joining the Navy to dodge the draft and ends up work-ing with Marines, Army, and Seal Teams in Vietnam and Cambodia. He failed at two marriages, raised a great son, had multiple affairs while managing a successful career in the broadcast industry, experienced countless brushes with greatness and skied some of the world's greatest moun-tains in the Intermountain West. This memoir reflects on an over seventy-year journey that took the author from the beaches of Southern California to the mountains of Idaho and much of what occurred along the way.

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Terry Tario grew up in Redondo Beach, California during a heady time of cultural change when California truly was the Golden State. The land itself was still young, wild, and wide open with miles of sprawling empty ground, endless acres of orange groves, farms, and ranches for as far as any eye could see through the clear blue sky. It was a dynamic time in a vibrant place, still raw and alive before asphalt, concrete, shopping malls and freeways smothered much of its natural beauty, where dreams of television and movie stars, mu-sic and surfing were like a clarion call, drawing young people from all over the country to the West Coast. Terry soaked up all that Southern California had to offer before a stint in Naval aviation took him to war in S.E. Asia, after which he had a long and success-ful career in the broadcasting in-dustry. Now, semi-retired in Idaho, he lives in the foothills overlooking Boise. This is his first book.

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