7: A Well-Lived Life - Book 1 - Birgit by Michael Loucks What a difference my life would have been it this had been me. I was always the shy one and was still a virgin until my wedding night. I was on my way to Viet Nam and figured that I would either make my new wife a widow like Jennie or come home with body parts missing. This story is about the teenage years I never had. I just turned seventy and can only reflect upon the love life that never was.