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My parents at their wedding in 1965. They divorced in 1973.
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I was born at 4:41 am on December 5, 1969. I weighed 7 pounds 15 ounces. I had blond hair and blue eyes.
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My mother bottle fed me, but this is a picture of my aunt Jenny feeding me.
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I learned to walk.
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When I was 1 years old I wouldn't go to stangers. This was my great aunt Lenore Nolan, and I didn't know her, but I loved to go to elderly people.
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My mother stayed home full time to take care of my brother and me. While my father worked at Ford full time.
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Halloween was my mothers birthday and a favorite event of mine to go begging for candy.
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I am going to guess my first word was mama.
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My parents got divorced.
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My mother would leave my brother and myself at home sometimes if she needed to go to the store. My brother was 5 and I was 3. My brother told me that I used to scream and cry at the door for her to come back.
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A man broke into our home through the milk shoot. My brother was sleeping in my room that night, because I had bunk beds. The man tried to rape my mother,but his equipment wouldn't work. My mother ran out the front door and landed on her knees and injured her back.
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My father picked my brother and myself up from the sitters without permission and took us to a fair. My father couldn't find his car. The police had to drive us home.
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We lived in Detroit at the time and I remember how scary it was to walk to school by myself. I believe I went to Fox elementary, but I don't remember.
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I started 1st grade.
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I lost my first tooth and the tooth fairy put a dime under my pillow.
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My mother started leaving me at home by myself. She needed to work to support us and couldn't afford to pay a sitter.
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I started 2nd grade.
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I joined girlscouts and enjoyed it so much.
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I started 3rd grade.
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I took a ballet class.
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I started 3rd grade.
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I started 4th grade.
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I started 5th grade.
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I started 6th grade.
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I started a new school in the 6th grade. I was picked on severly at this school, because I didn't wear designer clothes. My mom also made some of my clothes so I was picked on for that as well. I used to cry on recess at the time.
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I started the 7th grade.
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I had my first menstrual period (menarche).
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I started the 8th grade.
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I started 9th grade.
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I met my first boyfriend.
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My father re-married and his new wife was very un-kind towards my brother and myself after they married.
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I started the 10th grade.
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I started the 11th grade.
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I stopped speaking to my father this year, because this was the first me I asked him for financial help and his wife said "no". My mom moved us again in the last month of the 11th grade. I asked my father to borrow $300.00 so I wouldn't have to quit school in the last month.
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My final year of high school.
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I got an apartment wih my boyfriend. My grandparents were upset that I moved in with my boyfriend when I was so young.
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I got a job right out of high school, so I could move out of my mothers home. I worked at a retirement home and I worked there 7 years.
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I found out my boyfriend that I was living with was smoking marijuana. He also started hitting me so I moved out.
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I met the man that I would marry. We dated for two years before we got married.
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I got married on this day. It was a wonderful day, everything turned out perfect.
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My husband and I bought our first house in Holly Michigan.
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Started working for the department of corrections.
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My father in law was cutting down a neighbors tree and something went wrong and the tree fell on him. An ambulance was called and he was taken to the hospital.
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Good friends had a baby girl on this day.
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My husband began having an affair with a nurse that was in his father's care.
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I filed for a divorce today.
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My divorce became final today on my ex-husbands 33 birthday.
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Inmate accidently broke my foot causing reflex sympathtic dystrophy in my left foot ending my career in the prison system.
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Moved in with boyfriend and he flew in to a rage one morning while I was sleeping and he thought I was ignoring him. I was actually sleeping.
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I had a baby boy that we name Aidan. My mom was so excited and she is holding him in this picture. My mother couldn't wait to become a grandma.
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I started taking classes at Eastern Michingan full time in the Health Administration program.
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My father died on this day between the hours of 2 am and 6 am. It was a very sad day and a blessing that he wasn't suffering anymore.
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I graduated with my Bachelors degree from Eastern Michigan University in Health Administration.
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My mother got married for the third time to Mike Greiner.
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This is the worst day of my life I get a message on my cell phone that my mother has died at the age of 63. She died of a drug overdose, but it is still in quetion on who gave her the drugs. My heart is broken into a million pieces.
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I end up in the hospital for 4 days with Clostridium difficile. It was a brutal painful disease. I walk out of the hospital weighing in at 116 pounds.
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I get married.
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I have another baby.
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My son goes to college and follows in his fathers footsteps to be a Pilot.
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My son comes home and introduces the women he is going to marry,
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My son gets married
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I voulnteer for hospice.
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I become a grandma.
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My husband and I retire.
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I die peacfully in my sleep at the age of 89.
