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Born in Garden City, MI at Garden City Hospital.
Biosocial: Born at 11:27 am weighing in at just over 6lbs. -
Psychosocial: The need to move and get around on my own and explore my evironment.
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My first shot at saying "Dad" came out as "Da".
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My very first birthday and in good infant fashion I attempeted eating a whole cake all by myself.
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One small step for a man but one giant step for a 13 month old.
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The "terrible twos" have officially started. I'm now speaking full sentences and walking on my own.
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By the time I was three all I wanted to do was either hang on my moms leg or be around my older brother Randy
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We got our first dog! a Chinese Sharpei named Ming. I was 3 years old. Psychosocial: One of my first resposibilities as a child even though I was only three I still had to learn how to treat an animal and not jump on it when they are sleeping.
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At 5 years old my favorite cartoons are G.I Joe, He-Man, and The Thundercats
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At 5 years old I'm also really starting to get into pro wrestling. Today I'm watching Wrestlemania 3 on payperview. the event was held at the Pontiac SilverDome
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Got stung by my first Bee and it was the worst day of my life to date.
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Almost twenty years from now we will be meeting for the first time.
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My younger brother Sean is born and I'm officially the middle child. I'm officially an older brother and now have to set a good example for my brother to follow.
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At 6 years old I ended up not being ready for school and had to repeat kindergarden the next year.
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Our dog Ming was taken to a "farm" to live because he was too aggressive to live in a neighborhood full of children. I asked my dad for years if we can go visit Ming at the farm or if he talked to the farmer to see how our dog was doing. I was sad but I knew our dog was not friendly to anyone outside of my immediately family so I understood why he had to go.
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At 7 years old I was finallly ready to take on the responsibilities of kindergarden.
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My first year of playing city league football. I really did not know too much about the sport other than my older brother Randy was good at it and if he was going to play then so was I. I was small and not very athelitic but I eventually came around.
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Looking back at this time I remember being so excited to drive and thinking that I'm starting to become an adult.
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I was 18 and had never done any drugs (still have never touched a single drug to this day) and had never gotten drunk. I remember beign at a party with m buddies and just being bored because there was no girls there. I wanted to pick up the mood so I told my friends that I wanted to get drunk for the first time. Awesome start to a great summer.
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I was 18years old and although I had plenty of other girls friends before her , Jessica was the first one that I loved. I remember when we broke up and thinking that my whole world had just been crushed and I had not yet realized just how big the ocean really is.
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In the best shape of my life thus far ready for the season to start. It is still too early in the season for me twrap my head around the fact that this is my last season of highschool football.
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At 19 I put off college because I thought I needed a "break" from school so I jumped at the chance when my friends dad offered me a job at a trucking company driving a fork lift. I had no idea what I was in for or what hard work was. I was working with grown men that had busted their ass for 16 plus years working the road and working 12 plus hours a day.While working here I learned a lot about what is expected of me out in the real world.
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The next five years are tough but extremely rewarding and I physically push myself past limits I never knew I had. Even today I have never been pyshically pushed harder as when I did while Thai-Boxing.
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At 22 I finally start to get an idea of what I want to do with my life.
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After 20 years my parents decide to get a devorce.The split forces us to sell the house that I thought I would bring my kids to visit their grandparents in. I do not like to talk about this portion of my life but I will say that it was very difficult for my family and I.
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A new beginning. at 25 years old I'm the second oldest person at bootcamp. I'm surrounded by kids that are 18 and 19 years old and I'm being called an "old man" by my drill instructors. I end up being the fittest in my platoon, in the top 3 for fittest in the entire company, and graduate 2nd in my entire company.
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Today I'm born again.
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From the FIrst time I met her I was hooked. I knew she was the one.
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My brother Sean, myself, (some of our closest frineds in the Marines) Temples, Llanos, Hopkins, Hendon, all volunteer to deploy to Iraq. I joined to serve my country, not to hide from the inevitable.
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Still love her more than yesterday and more tomorrrow than today.
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Exhausted.
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I'm 27 years old and I'm going on my second deployment. We are told that this deployment will not be easy and that some of us may not make it back home.
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Not a day goes by where I do not think about this day and the following day.
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So that others may live.
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Tough deployment.
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Never thought I would make it to see this day.
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I may be a little old completeing the academy at thirty one years old but I physically feel like I'm still in my twenties.
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Now college is done and paid for I think it is time we go on a vacation
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Finally I can really start working towrads what I really want to do with my life.
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I have always loved to stay in shape and now it really pays off because criminals are so out of shape ha!
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Finally we have our first home and the room to start a family!
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My wife and I welcome our first child into the world!
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Happy for my brother Sean and his two twins!
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Once again my wife and I are blessed with a little one
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Holy cow do they grow up fast
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I can't wait to be the best uncle EVER!
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Won't be long now and before I know it they"ll be all grown up
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I have always wanted to do this!
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It is a lot of stuff to move but Im happy to be doing it in the heat rather than the cold.
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where has the time gone?
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All grown up but still so much growing up to do.
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Having graduated college and now off to the real world
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It has been a long hard road but well worth it.
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Im retired I think I deserve it!
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After years of pushing my body it finally has taken it's toll on my knee.
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73 years old
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My only hope is that I made a difference somewhere in this world.