Dana Lybrand:  

Life After Jefferson (which I only attended for 2 years, after been in Baptist school for 4 long years- I was never Baptist either, long story)- I enrolled in Red Rocks for one semester, after which I had to leave since my father was terminally ill, actually my father became ill with prostate cancer while I was at Jefferson my junior year, so unbeknowst to most people I had that to deal with on the home front). After that traumatic experience (my father passed in 1980) I unexpectedly joined the Army for all of two months, getting a medical discharge for high arches (those platform shoes did not help that us ladies used to wear back in the day!) During that time I became engaged to someone I met in the Army in Alabama, came back to Colorado and got dumped. I lost my mother very unexpectedly in 1988 two weeks before my 28th birthday, so the 80's were not a happy time for me. My first serious relationship did not happen until after my parents were gone. In high school I lived a very sheltered life and hardly knew anyone due to things at home and losing my other brother when I was only nine months old at...Expand for more