What Made Me Who I Be

By jojames1
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written 10/25/05 11:15 AM, published 10/25/05 11:15 AM
It all started on a Wednesday afternoon in 1971.  I was born.  I was quite the Popup Linkbathing beauty.  It was rumored I was a very Popup Linkmischevious child.  I don't know Popup Linkwhy they said such things.

I was raised in the delta region of Arkansas.  My family grew soybeans, rice and Popup Linkcotton.  Most of the toys my sister and shared were Popup Linkorganic.  

I did an awful mean Popup LinkJohn Denver impersonation.  I enjoyed being on the Popup Linkfarm.  

As I grew older, I loved being Popup Linkcenter stage.  And I was quite the Popup Linkfashionista.  My mom eventually quit taking pictures and made me the family Popup Linkphotographer.  

Then came the dark years.  My late teens and early twenties.  I self-medicated myself to memory block.  During this time, my dad had an emergency quadruple-bypass heart surgery.  My mother died of a brain tumor.  I gained a lot of weight, enjoyed too many classes of alcohol...and had a very horrible hangnail.

Over the last few years I lost a dramatic amount of Popup Linkweight, found Popup Linkunconditional love and started taking my happy pills.

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