Life After Breakfast

<p>Ralphie grew up in the years before during and after World War II.</p><p>This book traces his journey from a boy to a teenager and to a man. As a boy he became friends with his neighbor William Jr. who would become a mainstay in his life for twelve years. They were as close as brothers.</p><p>One of his favorite places to play was the railroad tracks which had a switch he loved to play with. It was fun to move the big handle watching the rails move back and forth-something Ralphie could do with little effort. A disastrous ending ensued.</p><p>As a senior in high school he worked every day but somehow managed to go on dates with his girlfriend Donna. Buying a ring was a struggle but he proposed in the backseat of a car and the two were married Nov. 26 1955.</p><p>He tried to settle into married life with Donna becoming a housewife. But she was eventually diagnosed as being a paranoid schizophrenic and a doctor advised Ralphie he should end the marriage.</p><p>Find out if Ralphie listened to the doctor's advice and about the hard lessons he learned through his struggles with alcoholism and cancer in <em>Life after Breakfast</em>.</p>