Dianna Swanner:  

Life I am very happy in my life right now. I am married to a man, David that I wish I had known all of my life. I have a 25 year old daughter, her name is Ramona and she is a working student nurse. I also have a dog named Snooker he is a Basenji mix, I saved him from a place called the Cat Womans' Shelter. A very sweet and spoiled dog. Now enough of that. I'm sure most of you don't remember me. It doesn't matter I do remember some of you even now. Debbi Stampfli I seem to remember you as a very pretty girl , a cheerleader I think. If my memory serves me you had the most beautiful long, dark hair. A sweet person but I saw a strong woman inside. Just what I thought any how. I always thought you would become a doctor. I myself was a bartender for most of my life but things like that get old. I felt that I was getting even older. So I finally took another avenue and got a job printing pictures for a while. I became the mgr. in my dept. Well lets just say I loved my job. But I did not even like my employer at all. It didn't matter because I ended up getting quite ill to the point of and at the very threshold of DEATH. Not a pretty sight. The year was 2003. November. Over the past 4 years I had experienced death from the living side of it. In just a very short amount of time my younger, brother James died. Less than one year later my younger sister Tootie died. If that was not enough my wonderful Grandfather passed on. Well the year 2003 rolls around and well my father was gone to the beyond as well. I had really been hurting for a long time. It was not just emotional pain but it became a physical pain as well. When you first start feeling the grief you say to yourself time will heal this pain. But sometimes it does not. Over time you do things out of habit without even noticing it you seem to think that your fine. That first drink of alcohol. At the time it seemed to help, but as the death toll rises so did my pain and grief and then add ...Expand for more