Linda Brown:  

Life After high school I worked at the phone company in Flemington for a year. As hard as it might be to believe, my parents not only discouraged me from going to college they convinced me it was unnecessary and never going to happen. I had a Latin father who would never let me out of his sight until I got married, I looked around and realized I needed more from life so I joined the USNavy. He couldn't follow me there. I loved boot camp and was the RCPO (for those in the know). My first duty station was NASC Pensacola as a personnelman. The Blue Angels flew overhead daily, as if only for my benefit. I love being in the middle of things. My second duty station was Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where I was a tour guide on the USS Arizona. I drove a 50' U Boat through Pearl Harbor and gave tours to civilians. Maybe you? While in the Navy, I married, had my son in Honolulu and divorced all too quickly. By 24 I moved "home" which was by then northern California. Both my brothers (as well as several NHRHS alumni) were living there and "farming". My parents followed my brothers lead and moved there as well. I divorced, moved to the Santa Cruz Mountains and three years later I met my current husband while work at a leading hard disk drive company in Silicon Valley. We married and combined our families, the two younger ones living with us. We lived in an area on the Monterey Bay that lookes very much like our part of New Jersey, apple orchards, rolling hills, and horses but only 10 minutes from the beach. We lived happily for 3 years before being transferr...Expand for more