Iraida Augusto:  

CLASS OF 1974
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Ferris High SchoolClass of 1974
Jersey city, NJ

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I have 2 boys i mean 2 young men one jimmy 32 yrs old and johnathon 31 yrs old jimmy is in the academy for the corrections officer and johnathon works for a company that orders equipment for the airlines the safety equipment he is a sales rep. i am very proud of my boys. i worked for 18 yrs as a pharmacy tech and then worked in the superior court of new jersey as a assistant to the court clerk. i have a granddaughter she is 6 yrs old and her name is jocelynn. i haven't worked for 10 yrs because i had a nervous breakdown i had a very bad marriage and between that and the pressure of my job and problems with teenagers it got to the piont that i got very sick and lost myself esteem and self worth. but that will never happen to me again. i just lost my mother 3 years ago that the hardest thing that i ever had to endure. i took care of my mother for many years and i blame myself for letting her die she died of cancer and no one wanted to give her chemo and i insisted so much and looked until i found a doctor that gave it to her and i think that it made matters worst. well for now i take it one day at a time. idon't even know if anyone is going to remeber me. I always wanted to be a nurse when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a good idea. As it turns out, they were wrong. with being around so much sickness and grief i became a coldhearted person and was very angry all the time and didn't care about other people when i worked in he pharmacy as a tech that was in the 80's that the aids epidemiccameoutand you had to order the atz of course you were not alowed to tell the patie...Expand for more
nt what the rx was for but i remember that one day there was a gay couple that use to come to the pharmacy and i remember that they came together that day and handed me the precription and asked me what it was for and why did they have to wait for medicaid to aprove it.one of them asked me can he at least have the cream for my rash and he lifted his shirt and his chest and his back were full of lesion and open sores. that's when i started to look for something away from the health field. i amproud to say that on 8/29/08my son jimmy became a correction officer and that i amgoing to be a grandmother again of a boy this timebut ihavetowait untilfebuary of 2009. oh mommy i wish you were her to see this the joy in my heart and the saddnessinmy eyesbecause you are nothere i miss you so much. i think that as we age you don't look at things with such importance but you also see things with more of a challenge . i myself had an experience when i was 19 years old and 32 years have passed and i confessed i was so afraid of the out come but for years it haunted memy mother died with my secret and when she passed i felt i had tocomeclean for myself and my concience which we all have but to be honest with you when i finally reveiled my silence it was too late time had passed and it really didn't make a difference.so all these years i was afraid of nothing. idon't care who knows and i don't care what people think. i know that i am a proud aN INTELLIGENT WOMEN AND USED ANDBWORKED WITH WHAT I THOUGH WAS RIGHT.do i regret it no .i got a beautiful son from it and he ismy son....................
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