Carlos Padilla:  

My story is no less important than your own. Welcome! I dropped out of Edgewood in February of my senior year. Not a wise move. I ended up watching my classmates graduate from behind a chain link fence at Thyberg Field. Linda (Lambrecht) and I married in March 1981; separated in July 1981; were divorced in November of 1981. Hey, we were young. Two years later I entered the seminary. Before joining the seminary, I needed a high school diploma. I enrolled in Bassett Adult School where I received both my high school diploma (graduated top of the class) and my G.E.D. I spent approximately four years in the seminary between two religious orders in Missouri and New Jersey. Following my best friend's suicide (in the seminary) I decided not to return. Several years later I met Amy (Casas) the mother of our six children (Jennifer, Jacquelyn, Michael, Kristina, Matthew, and Joshua). We married in 1987, separated in 1996, and divorced in 2001. I am not proud of my failed marriage history but I do consider myself blessed to have loved and known two remarkable women. I moved to Whittier, California where I lived between 1998 and 2001. I purchased a house in Victorville, California in 2000 before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2002. I had the oppo...Expand for more