Thomas E. Call IV shares the fascinating history of the Call family, which spans more than two hundred years, as well as his life story in this memoir.
Call, who served in the Army during the Korean War, returned home to start a career with the U.S. Postal Service, starting as a temporary substitute mail carrier in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1958. HeÕd go on to become national director of delivery for the entire U.S. Postal Service at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., retiring in 1988.
He chronicles his successes and triumphsÑas well as his domestic relationshipsÑwhich ranged from heterosexual marriages to marrying a man thirty-four years younger and of a different cultural heritage.
Many of CallÕs gay friends have told him that they knew who they were sexually at a young age, and theyÕve wondered why he Òswitched teamsÓ so late in life. The saying that ÒPeople donÕt change, but the times doÓ may have been true in his case. Any such thoughts were kept in the back of his mind as a young man.