Life as I Saw It

In this paper I want to guide you through where I am from, where I grew up, where I live now, my favorite memories, and my personal and academic goals. All of these are important to me and has helped to mold me into the person that I am today. My family has had its problems, but we always stick together. My uncle Bobby has always told me that blood was thicker than water, and I have always tried to follow this in my dealings with my family members.

Once I guide you through this information why they are important to me, it has taken me a while to get here and to like who I am, but I am finally there. It has been my goal since I was a teenager to be the first of my family to graduate high school and then go to college, but life had other plans for me. So, I tucked my dream of going to college away somewhere, hoping to bring it back out again at a later time.

July 24, 1973 in Winchester, KY I was born to my 17 year old mother, my father, who also was 17, was nowhere to be found. Mom wanted me to be born where she was born, so two weeks before I was born, she traveled to her home town in Kentucky, a small town in eastern Kentucky called Stanton, Ky. When mom and I were able to travel, we went back to where mom lived with her parents, Springvalley, Ohio. I was raised between Xenia Ohio area and the Stanton KY area my whole life, until I was 19 years old and moved to Alabama with my aunt to assist her with her small son.

My mother being so young when she had me, I spent most of the time with my grandparents. I bonded with them more than I did my mom. I stayed with them primarily until I was 8 years old when my mom married her third husband and we moved back to Kentucky to live for a short time. We moved around so much I remember going to at least three different elementary schools for the first grade.

My brother was 18 months younger than myself; you could not separate us, even though we fought like cats and dogs. And my sister was born eight years after me. I was...