One More Turn of the Page (ePub)

Born the oldest of three sons to a middle-class family in Russell, Kansas, George Hopkins was reared the American way by loving parents and a supportive community. He first dreamed of being an educator/coach like his dad but decided later to pursue the healthcare field instead. A member of the 1977 graduating class of Garden City, Kansas, High School, George took his interests to Garden City Community College and Oral Roberts University where he studied chemistry toward his bachelor of science degree. George married Lori Bradfield in August of 1980 after being accepted into the University of Houston College of Optometry. Lori's full-time employment as well as George's part-time jobs supported the couple for four years until his graduation in 1984. They moved back to their hometown of Garden City where they live today and George is a practicing optometrist. They have two sons and three grandchildren. Math and Science, always a passion of George's, fortunately came easily. Fortunate because reading was never his strong suit. In fact, throughout most of his life, George read only what was necessary. The concept of reading a novel, let alone writing one, was as foreign to him as rain in western Kansas. It was only in his mid forties that George would pick up his first classical novel, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and discover a new exciting affection toward literature; creating a passion for words that, to this day, remains unquenched.