CHILDHOODAbandoned and Chosen
The Adoption
When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast
Guard after World War II, he made a wager
with his crewmates. They had arrived in San
Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned,
and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife
within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine
mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance
to James Dean. But it wasn’t his looks that got him
a date with Clara Hagopian, a sweethumored
daughter of Armenian immigrants. It was the fact that
he and his friends had a car, unlike the group she had
originally planned to go out
with that evening. Ten days later, in March 1946,
Paul got engaged to Clara and won his wager. It
would turn out to be a happy marriage, one that
lasted until death parted them more than forty years later.
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