Discovery Road

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Discovery Road is written by Hank Koopman and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0645450502 (ISBN 10) and 9780645450507 (ISBN 13).

A memoir about a couple of children who married at 16 and 18 years of age. Influenced by religious doctrine, the marriage began with a lot of mental abuse. Nine years enlisted in the RAN, it covers the time of the HMAS Voyager disaster, Malaysian Confrontation and Viet Nam. Establishing myself as an entertainer before leaving the navy, a professional life as an entertainer was followed up until 2017. My wife, the 16 year old girl I married, went through 3 miscarriages and one full birth though our child only lived for a day. A Roman Catholic priest derided us by saying we were living in sin, it was no wonder the baby died. (I was Methodist)The book goes into our trauma we suffered because of this belief that we would never have children because in the eyes of God, we didn't deserve children.Our sex life suffered greatly, and there were many times I proved unfaithful. Yet the girl I married has been the rock I needed to cling to for the 57 years we've been together. She surpassed me as a singer/songwriter entertainer 10 years after we married. Because of her talent we got to work for Princess Cruises in America. It has been a very rocky road, but we discovered ourselves by our belief that our whole life has been guided by someone. Why else did our love survive?