Ted Lowes grew up on Winburndale Estates. He graduated from high school in 1945 and Michigan State University in 1952. Subsequently, he lived between Miami and San Francisco. Youthful fascination for new faces and places remains. During military service in Europe he almost lived on trains. Sleeping little enabled him to travel further and meet more people. Wording of this fictional biography connecting faces and places is accidental. Similarities which may occur are strictly by chance.