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WELL WHERE SHOULD I BEGIN?....I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN A SMALL COMMUNITY IN EASTERN OHIO. WHEN I WAS ABOUT 7 MY PARENTS DIVORCED I REMAINED LIVING WITH MY MOTHER...WITHIN A COUPLE YEARS MY MOTHER MET AND MARRIED A MAN AND WE MOVED TO A SMALL TOWN ALSO IN OHIO CALLED BETHESDA, NOW UP UNTIL THIS TIME I WAS AN ONLY CHILD WHICH WAS GREAT BUT AFTER THIS UNION I BECAME THE BIG SISTER TO 2 STEP-SISTERS WE GOT ALONG FAIRLY WELL AT TIMES BUT THERE WERE THE FIGHTS....BOTH OF MY SISTERS NOW RESIDE IN MISSOURI WITH THEIR FAMILY'S I DO HAVE A WONDERFUL NIECE NAMED LORAN AND A NEPHEW SETH.....I WAS MARRIED TO MY HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART JIM IN SEPTEMBER OF 1983: ON A COLD SATURDAY MORNING, NOV 5TH 1983 A BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL WAS BORN WE NAMED HER ALYSSA EMILY SHE BECAME THE LIGHT OF OUR LIVES....THEN 18 MONTHS LATER ON SATURDAY EVENING MAY 18,1985 A BOUNCING BABY BOY CAME INTO OUR FAMILY HE WOULD BE NAMED JOSHUA WILLIAM MAKING THE LIGHTS EVEN BRIGHTER.....AS YOU CAN SEE I WAS A TEEN MOTHER SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT AN EASY TASK TO OVERCOME BUT WITH THE HELP OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS JIM WAS ABLE TO GRADUTE FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND I TO GOT A DIPLOMA....IN MARCH OF 1991 I JOINED THE LOCAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND BEGAN A JOURNEY TO WHICH WOULD BECOME A COMPASSION IN MY LIFE, I BEGAN TAKING AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL COURSE I TOOK THE TEST IN MAY OF 1991 AND PASSED I BEGAN RUNNING ON THE EMERGENCY SQUAD AND FEEL IN LOVE WITH IT, I CONTINUED TO RUN FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS....IN JANUARY 1993 MY HUSBAND AND I SPLIT UP FINALLY DIVORCING IN JULY OF THAT YEAR. KNOWING FIRST HAND WHAT THE SEPERATION OF PARENTS CAN DO TO A CHILD JIM AND I WERE BLESSED TO HAVE 2 VERY MATURE WELL ROUNDED CHILDREN I FEEL THEY HAVE DELT WITH IT WELL....IN NOVEMBER OF 1993 I WAS MARRIED ONCE AGAIN TO A GREAT GUY ED.....WE'VE HAD OUR UP'S AND DOWN'S AS ALL COUPLES DO....IN MAY OF 1998 I JOINED A GROUP OF CONCERNED EMT'S, MEDIC'S AND CITIZENS IN BARNESVILLE,OHIO WHERE I WAS NOW RESIDING TO BRING TOGETHER A VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SQUAD WHICH WAS DISBANDED MONTHS BEFORE.... IT WAS A LONG FIGHT BUT WE DID SUCCEED... I RAN AS A EMT FOR THIS SQUAD UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1999 WHEN WE MOVED TO COLUMBUS, OHIO WHERE WE ARE NOW LIVING..... |
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