Karen Soleiman Marston:  

Life After graduating valedictorian in '77, turned into a party animal for 3 yrs. instead of going to college. Finally settled down & worked for 10 years as an Admin. Assistant. During this period met my husband, Mike, an Iranian Jew, whom I dated for 8 years before marrying. Mike is a Systems Engineer who worked at Edwards AFB for 23 yrs., but now has worked at Los Angeles AFB at Space & Missile Systems Center for 3 yrs. As soon as we were married, started having the kids, and have stayed at home with them ever since. Definitely did not want babysitters to raise the little rugrats. Had 2 boys, Matthew, now age 19, and Daniel, age 15. Both are top-notch students and spoiled rotten. Neither boy looks like either one of us, so when the four of us are together, we all look different from one another. What a family! In June '95 and again in Jan. '06, I had the distinct pleasure of undergoing brain surgery two times. Both due to benign meningiomas, where the medical community is at a loss to explain what causes these tumors or how to permanently cure them. What fun!! One consolation is that they were not cancerous. However, life does go on! For the future, other...Expand for more