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This page is now quite out of date...so here are the updates: Dad: just got married, her name is Danielle, she has 3 kids and they are pregnant. Mom: In college, graduating soon, Rachel: Graduated and is in national guard, Amy: nothing new there I guess...
My dad
My dad was born in Arizona (I think) in 1961 on July 7. He moved a lot when he was young. He lived in southern Iowa (in the Bellevue area) for awhile before moving to the Manchester region where he finished high school and met my mom.
My mom
My mom was born in Volga, Iowa (I think) in 1962 on July 11. She didn't move around much growing up and lived in eastern Iowa her whole life. She ended up in Manchester around the same time as my dad.
My parents as a whole
My parents met on a farm we actually lived on at one point, the owners were mutual friends and they were there for the fourth of July. As the story goes they all wanted to go to the fireworks in Aurora, but my dad was the only person with a vehicle, a forest green t-top camaro (I think...I know the color and the t-top are right) so they piled 11 people in it and went to the fireworks. They apparently dated awhile, I don't know much until they got married. My mom was 3 months pregnant with me at the time, they got married on June 11, 1981. I was born etc etc, my first sister was born on September 2, 1983. Her name is Rachel. You can read about her later. A few more years pass and I have another sister, Amanda (call her Amy, I do and she prefers Amanda). She was born on June 7, 1985, breach. She was born by Cessarion at a time when that meant any other kids after that would need to be Cessarion also. We were living in trailors at the time. I remember a few things from that time...I know my mom worked at Dairy Queen and my dad worked at Ethyl (later to become Tredegar). Trailors simply weren't big enough for our growing family and my dad's job meant we could afford a house. We moved to Delhi etc etc...fast forward to now. My parents got divorced recently (read the life story) and my mom took us back into town. My dad lives near Winthrop in a cool little old house.
Rachel
Rachel is 2 years younger than me. Growing up my parents were told she could either start in the class after me or the next one, if she started after me she would easily be the youngest in the class and would probably be at a disadvantage. My mom decided she should wait another year so Rachel's only a junior now while I graduated last spring. After my parents divorced Rachel started going to parties and things. At one such party my mom had let her drive our Blazer (which was going to be mine when I got my license) and she let some kid have the keys even though he was probably drunk. That kid took some of his friends out four-wheeling in a field and rolled it. Obviously Rachel got in trouble for that. Rachel didn't like being in trouble so she moved in with my dad. He enrolled her in East Buch. and bought her a car so she could get to school, less than a month later she put it in the ditch and totalled it. I don't know how she passed driver's ed. let alone got her driver's license, I am a WAY better driver than that, but I can't pass that stupid test for my life. She recently told us she joined the National Guard, probably a good choice since they might finally teach her some responsibility. Either that or get her killed...either way she's not on the road and she can't kill anyone ELSE...or maybe she IS on the road, but she knows what she's doing...that works too.
Amy
Amy is 2 years younger than Rachel, but she's only a year behind her in school. I think Rachel got started at the right time while Amy started kinda early since she has a summer birthday. Not a whole lot to tell about Amy, she's a prep to the core while Rachel and I were outcasts from the start. I ended up (after graduation) falling in with the band/chorus crowd while Rachel ended up (starting in High School) in the skanky group. All her friends were drunks, crack heads and sluts...but this is Amy's section...Amy's friends are basically good kids I think...except a few that are drunks...and a few more that are just bitches. She used to be a pretty good kid, recently she's been real bitchy, she even flicked Justin off...I haven't seen her flick anyone off in years, but in less than 30 seconds Justin had her flicking him off...Amy has always been Mom's favorite, that was obvious from as far back as I can remember. That left Rachel and I competing for our dad's love because we didn't get it from our mom. Our dad worked 12 hour days and we never really knew when his hours were so we didn't really get it there either. Rachel was easily mom's second favorite, I've often doubted if my mom even liked me at all when I was young...I think now she tolerates me and feeds me...but there's no love lost there. I haven't seen my dad since Christmas, or Rachel for that matter so I'm thinking I lost my battle there too. Oh well.
That's my immediate family, if I went further you'd get WAY too much info for anyone to read or write so I'll quit there. That's it, my family, I prefer the false closeness the internet supplies or even the fake companionship of complete strangers that I get at the school.
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