Carole Bennett:  

Life After I graduated from High Desert High in '81 I had gone unto college at VictorValley Jr. College on Bear Valley Rd. where I attended until my mom and i were in a bad car accident in Victorville. We were involved in a hit and run on the way to the post office up by the elementry school. The guy was of course on drugs and under the influence of Alcohol and did not even realize he had hit us until the police had finally caught him running onto the frwy onramp by the Chevron station after his engine dropped out of the car he was driving. Anyway my mom and i were layed up for quite awhile from that ordeal and as soon as I could I continued my college education and met my first husband. Sense then I have had 2 Daughters and had a bad marriage and a few bad relationships as well. I moved to Hanford which is between Fresno and Bakersfield! My mom had gotten breast cancer in the meantime and I started to take care of her, she had such a hard time at it and it was very hard for me to see her so sick with this disease I could do nothing about. I can tell you that it is the worse thing to have to deal with knowing that your love one is dying and you can not do anything to stop, pause, rewind or replace somehow what they are going through as far as the pain, the phases of depression and mood swings... I stayed by her side for 5 years untill she died in 1995 August, 16th. I was very lost and very vulnerable and just wanted to dissapeer, but I could not because I had my 2 Daughters who at that time needed me and depended on me so I loaded up everything and moved up to Nampa, Idaho in 1996 to be near my Cousin and Aunt. I ended up staying with my cousin and it was not easy, I had become involved with this man I thought loved me and of course just going through losing my mother I guess I wanted more then anything to believe he was my wall, my post and he would love me and fill that emptiness I had that hurt so badly. I was only kidding myself because after ...Expand for more